Effect of anesthetic drugs on time production and alpha rhythm

Abstract

Ss produ~ed time intervals before and during inhalation of low concentrations of an~sthetIc gases. The drugs increased time productions by raising the slope of the line representing produced against objective time. Alterations in time production were not accompanied by consistent changes in alpha rhythm, respiratory rate, heart rate, or body temperature. The findings argue against the alpha rhythm's acting as the biological pendulum for the internal clock.

Cannabis, Atropine, and Temporal Information Processing

“…Anesthetics [Adam, 1979], alco hol. and barbiturates [Tecce et al, 1978] decrease CNV amplitude, and decrease STR [Adam et al. 1971: Frankenhaeuser.…”

Perception and Estimation of Time

“…The group with frontal lesions showed a marked disability. A final point to indicate, and it is merely a confIrmation, is that there is no relationship between the alpha rhythm and temporal estimations (Adam et al 1971). However, Coffin & Ganz (1977) found in the estimation of a 5 sec task a high correlation between the estima tions and the weighted mean frequency of the EEG close to the alpha fre quency.…”

Temporal Cognition and the Phenomenology of Time: A Multiplicative Function for Apparent Duration

“…The cognitive timer can be with (Glicksohn & Myslobodsky, in preparation;Hoagland, 1933;Rammsayer, 1997;Treisman, Cook, Naish, & MacCrone, 1994) or without (Zakay, 1993a) neurobiological implications, having either a constant (e.g., invariant over method of estimation) or a variable rate of functioning (Allan & Gibbon, 1991;Carlson & Feinberg, 1968;Fetterman & Killeen, 1990;Macar, Grondin, & Casini, 1994;Treisman, 1963;Treisman & Brogan, 1992;Treisman et al, 1994;Treisman, Faulkner, Naish & Brogan, 1990;Zakay, 1989). The notion has been put to empirical test by looking at how arousal manipulations can alter the timer's rate of functioning (Adam, Rosner, Hosick, & Clark, 1971;Aitken & Gedye, 1968;Cahoon, 1969;Frankenhaeuser, 1959;Glicksohn, 1992Glicksohn, , 1996Penton-Voak, Edwards, Percival, & Wearden, 1996;Treisman et al, 1990Treisman et al, , 1992Treisman et al, , 1994Zakay, Nitzan, & Glicksohn, 1983).…”