Many behaviors posing significant risks to public health are characterized by repeated
decisions to forego better long-term outcomes in the face of immediate temptations. Steeply …

Timing is critical to most forms of learning, behavior, and sensory-motor processing.
Converging evidence supports the notion that, precisely because of its importance across a …

Our sense of time is far from constant. For instance, time flies when we are having fun, and it
slows to a trickle when we are bored. Midbrain dopamine neurons have been implicated in …

The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) is a 30 item self-report instrument designed to
assess the personality/behavioral construct of impulsiveness. Originally developed as part of …

Humans and animals prefer immediate over delayed rewards (delay discounting). This
preference for smaller-but-sooner over larger-but-later rewards shows substantial …

There is a longstanding association between substance-use disorders (SUDs) and the
psychological construct of impulsivity. In the first section of this review, personality and …

Distortions in time perception and timed performance are presented by a number of different
neurological and psychiatric conditions (eg Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, attention …

Humans share with other animals an ability to measure the passage of physical time and
subjectively experience a sense of time passing. Subjective time has hallmark qualities, akin …

Time is an important dimension when individuals make decisions. Specifically, the time until
a beneficial outcome can be received is viewed as a cost and is weighed against the …

The striking diversity of psychological and neurophysiological models of 'time perception'
characterizes the debate on how and where in the brain time is processed. In this review, the …