Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Neural Correlates of Time Perspective

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application

Abstract

The primary aim of this chapter is to summarize our present knowledge about the neural correlates of time perspective and related constructs. We first briefly introduce functional magnetic resonance functional magnetic resonance imaging as a suitable technique to understand the underlying neural mechanisms when studying various constructs of time. Then, we discuss how the use of brain imaging techniques has improved our knowledge regarding concepts of time perspective. In this section it becomes evident that most studies have focused on mental time traveling. Finally we introduce a novel line of research in which we try to study neural correlates of time within the context of the Zimbardo framework. By such approach we are able to include the personality-like construct from the ZTPI to further understand the neural correlates of temporal processing.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abraham, A., Schubotz, R. I., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2008). Thinking about the future versus the past in personal and non-personal contexts. Brain Research, 1233, 106–119.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Addis, D. R., Wong, A. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Remembering the past and imaging the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1363–1377.

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Alvos, L., Gregson, R. A., & Ross, M. W. (1993). Future time perspective in current and previous injecting drug users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 31, 193–197.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Berthoz, S., Armony, J. L., Blair, R. J., & Dolan, R. J. (2002). An fMRI study of intentional and unintentional (embarrassing) violations of social norms. Brain, 125, 1696–1708.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bird, C. M., Castelli, F., Malik, O., Frith, U., & Husain, M. (2004). The impact of extensive medial frontal lobe damage on “theory of mind” and cognition. Brain, 127, 914–928.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Boniwell, I., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2004). Balancing time perspective in pursuit of optimal functioning. In P. A. Linley & S. Joseph (Eds.), Positive psychology in practice (pp. 165–178). Hoboken: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boyd, J. N., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2005). Time perspective, health, and risk taking. In A. Strathman & J. Joireman (Eds.), Understanding behavior in the context of time (pp. 85–107). Mahwah: Erlbaum Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buckner, R. L. (2010). The role of the hippocampus in prediction and imagination. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 27–48.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Burgess, W. P., Dumontheil, I., & Gilbert, S. J. (2007). The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 290–298.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cabeza, R., & St Jacques, P. (2007). Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 219–227.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Carelli, M. G., Wiberg, B., & Wiberg, M. (2011). Development and construct validation of the Swedish Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 27(4), 220–227.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carstensen, L. L., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Charles, S. T. (1999). Taking time seriously: A theory of socioemotional selectivity. American Psychologist, 54, 165–181.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C. Y., Muggleton, N. G., Tzeng, O. J., Hung, D. L., & Juan, C. H. (2009). Control of prepotent responses by superior medial frontal cortex. NeuroImage, 15(44), 537–545.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Christoff, K., Ream, J. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2004). Neural basis of spontaneous thought processes. Cortex, 40, 1–9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Carli, D., Garreffa, G., Colonnese, C., Giulietti, G., Labruna, L., Briselli, E., Ken, S., Macrì, M. A., & Maraviglia, B. (2007). Identification of activated regions during a language task. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 25, 933–938.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Droit-Volet, S. (2013). Time perception in children: A neurodevelopmental approach. Neuropsychologia, 51, 220–234.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fogassi, L., Ferrari, P. F., Gesierich, B., Rozzi, S., Chersi, F., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005). Parietal lobe: From action organization to intention understanding. Science, 308(5722), 662–667.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fraisse, P. (1963). The psychology of time. New York: Harper & Row.

    Google Scholar 

  • Francis-Smythe, J. A., & Robertson, I. T. (1999). On the relationship between time management and time estimation. British Journal of Psychology, 90, 333–347.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goel, V., Gold, B., Kapur, S., & Houle, S. (1998). Neuroanatomical correlates of human reasoning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(3), 293–302.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Grondin, S. (2008). Psychology of time (p. 276). Bingley: Emerald.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grondin, S. (2010). Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72(3), 561–582. doi:10.3758/APP.72.3.561.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hassabis, D., Kumaran, D., Vann, S. D., & Maguire, E. A. (2007). Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(5), 1726–1731.

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kosslyn, S. M. (1999). If neuroimaging is the answer, what is the question? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 354, 1283–1294.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lewin, K. (1951). Field theory in the social sciences: Selected theoretical papers. New York: Harper.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, P. A., & Miall, R. C. (2003). Brain activation patterns during the measurement of sub- and supra-second intervals. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1583–1592.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, P. A., & Miall, R. C. (2006). Remembering the time: A continuous clock. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 401–406.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Logothetis, N. K. (2008). What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI. Nature, 453(7197), 869–878.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Logothetis, N. K., Pauls, J., Augath, M., Trinath, T., & Oeltermann, A. (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature, 412(6843), 150–157.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mac Donald, A. W., Cohen, J. D., Stenger, V. A., Cameron, S., & Carter, C. S. (2000). Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control 2000. Science, 288(5472), 1835–1838.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McDermott, K. B., Petersen, S. E., Watson, J. M., & Ojemann, J. G. (2003). A procedure for identifying regions preferentially activated by attention to semantic and phonological relations using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychologia, 41(3), 293–303.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Meck, W. H. (Ed.). (2005). Neuropsychology of timing and time perception [Special issue]. Brain & Cognition, 58(1). doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2004.09.004

  • Nyberg, L., Kimc, A., Habibd, R., Levinec, B., & Endel Tulving, E. (2010). Consciousness of subjective time in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(5), 22356–22359.

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Okuda, J., Fujii, T., Ohtake, H., Tsukiura, T., Tanji, K., Suzuki, K., Kawashima, R., Fukuda, H., Itoh, M., & Yamadori, A. (2003). Thinking of the future and the past: The roles of the frontal pole and the medial temporal lobes. NeuroImage, 19(4), 1369–1380.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Okuda, J., Fujii, T., Ohtake, H., Tsukiura, T., Yamadori, A., Frith, C. D., Paul, W., & Burgess, P. W. (2007). Differential involvement of regions of rostral prefrontal cortex (Brodmann area 10) in time- and event-based prospective memory. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 233–246.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Penney, T. B., & Vaitilingam, L. (2008). Imaging time. In S. Grondin (Ed.), Psychology of time (pp. 261–294). Bingley: Emerald Group.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ridderinkhof, K. R., Ullsperger, M., Crone, E. A., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2004). The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control. Science, 306, 443–447.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rubia, K. (2006). The neural correlates of timing functions. In J. Glicksohn & M. Myslobodsky (Eds.), Timing the future: The case for time-based prospective memory (pp. 213–238). London: World Scientific Publishing.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Senior, C., Russel, T., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (Eds.). (2006). Methods in mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Squire, L. R., van der Horst, A. S., McDuff, S. G. R., Frascino, J. C., Hopkins, R. O., & Mauldin, K. N. (2010). Role of the hippocampus in remembering the past and imagining the future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(44), 19044–19048.

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (1997). Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 123, 133–167.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Szpunar, K. K., Watson, J. M., & McDermott, K. B. (2007). Neural substrates of envisioning the future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 642–647.

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Vuust, P., Roepstorff, A., Wallentin, M., Mouridsen, K., & Østergaard, L. (2006). It don’t mean a thing… Keeping the rhythm during polyrhythmic tension, activates language areas (BA47). NeuroImage, 31(2), 832–841.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wang, S.-H., & Morris, G. M. (2010). Hippocampal-neocortical interactions in memory formation, consolidation, and reconsolidation. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 49–79.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wheeler, M. A., Stuss, D. T., & Tulving, E. (1997). Toward a theory of episodic memory: The frontal lobes and autonoetic consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 331–354.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wiberg, M., Sircova, A., Wiberg, B., & Carelli, M. G. (2012). Operationalizing balanced time perspective in a Swedish sample. International Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, 12, 95–107.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wiener, M., Turkeltaub, P., & Coslette, H. B. (2010). The image of time: A voxel-wise meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 49, 1728–1740.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zimbardo, P. G., & Boyd, J. N. (1999). Putting time in perspective: A valid, reliable individual-differences metric. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1271–1288.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Maria Grazia Carelli

  2. Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging and Centre for Population Studies, Ageing and Living Conditions Programme, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Carl-Johan Olsson

Authors
  1. Maria Grazia Carelli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Carl-Johan Olsson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Maria Grazia Carelli .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Stolarski

  2. Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie Sociale, Institut de Psychologie, University of Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France

    Nicolas Fieulaine

  3. GGZ Veenendaal, Veenendaal, The Netherlands

    Wessel van Beek

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Carelli, M.G., Olsson, CJ. (2015). Neural Correlates of Time Perspective. In: Stolarski, M., Fieulaine, N., van Beek, W. (eds) Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07368-2_15

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation