“…In TOJ tasks, however, motor components do not interfere with the execution of the task, as response speed is not important; only accuracy is taken into account. For this reason, we can conclude that our results involve only perception, not action, suggesting that the basal ganglia play a role in time perception on the scale of milliseconds and corroborating previous findings (Fiorio et al, 2006(Fiorio et al, , 2008Conte et al, 2013;Nelson et al, 2012). The fact that our patients were in the early stages of PD, which are characterized by lesions in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system, also implicates the basal ganglia in time perception; in the late stages of the disease, several cortical structures (Braak et al, 2003) and other neurotransmitters may be affected (Zgaljardic, Foldi, & Borod, 2004).…”