Shaping time through action learning

Información del proyecto

Time in Action

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 894955

DOI

10.3030/894955

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 23 Marzo 2020

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2021

Fecha de finalización 31 Diciembre 2023

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 171 473,28

Aportación de la UE

€ 171 473,28

Coordinado por

SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI DI TRIESTE
Italy

Descripción del proyecto

Buscar el momento perfecto en el encéfalo

El tiempo probablemente constituye la principal dimensión de nuestras vidas. Para alcanzar los objetivos de nuestras acciones diarias, incluso aquellas tan sencillas como hablar o dar un apretón de manos, la elección del momento oportuno es fundamental. Los humanos no contamos con un órgano especializado en la percepción del tiempo, sino que aprendemos a evaluarlo a partir de las interacciones con nuestro entorno. Sin embargo, todavía desconocemos cómo se procesa en nuestro encéfalo la percepción del tiempo. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos Time in Action realizará una novedosa investigación sobre la percepción del tiempo como una aptitud que adquirimos aprendiendo comportamientos orientados hacia objetivos. El amplio estudio basado en experimentos en combinación con la medición de la actividad cerebral por medio de electroencefalografías busca descubrir cómo se relaciona el aprendizaje de acciones dirigidas a objetivos con la percepción del tiempo y permitirá así obtener una perspectiva de los procesos neuronales relacionados.

Objetivo

Timing permeates our daily experience. We extract temporal regularities to predict events, such as traffic light behaviour. We narrow down cause-effect relationships based on temporal proximity of events. Everyday behaviours, such as shaking hands or speaking, are possible because of accurate timing. Despite its importance, timing is an elusive concept. We lack a sensing organ for time (in the same way as we have eyes for detecting light), and there are no brain areas uniquely involved in its processing (in the same way as we have visual cortices for vision). Given these constraints, how does time perception arise in the brain? Converging evidence suggests a central role of action in enabling time perception. Developmental studies suggest that timing is ‘acquired’ as children learn to interact with the environment. Brain research indeed shows a considerable action/timing overlap, as timing computations are embedded in action control brain function. Indeed, at its core, successful behaviour is all about timing: accurate timing is what separates successful actions such as shifting gears, from unsuccessful ones such as bumping into a car in front of us. Thus, timing might emerge from our ability of learning goal-directed behaviour. We propose that the key to the time perception puzzle lies in formalizing this statement, by directly evaluating time perception in the context of goal-directed action learning. We will causally establish how learning of goal-directed action features shapes our perception and neural processing of time. This will be carried out across experiments requiring adults to simultaneously learn goal-directed actions and estimate the duration of visual stimuli, while recording electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of brain activity. This project will spearhead a new cross-disciplinary approach merging timing and motor learning paradigms, with a significant impact on the way we think about and methodologically approach the study of time.

Palabras clave

• Time perception
• motor control
• motor learning
• EEG

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019

Coordinador

SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI DI TRIESTE

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 171 473,28
• Dirección: VIA BONOMEA 265 ; 34136 Trieste ; Italia
• Región: Nord-Est › Friuli-Venezia Giulia › Trieste
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 171 473,28