TABLE I. The involvement of the memory systems and the associated brain structures in the reproduction and production of short (5 seconds) and long durations (14 and 38 seconds).
Time estimation tasks | ||
Duration | Reproduction | Production |
5 seconds | Short-term memory | Short-term memory |
Working memory | Working memory | |
Attention | Attention | |
Frontal structures | Frontal structures | |
delay | Comparison with a representation of time in semantic or procedural memory | |
14 and 38 seconds | Retrieval in episodic memory | |
Bilateral medial temporal lobes | Right medial temporal and/or subcortical structures |