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Sensorimotor integration and decision-making essentially contribute to time perception by integrating different sources of sensory stimuli and using them for performance in cognition and adaptation to the environment. Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder where brain connectivity, and therefore, the integration of cognitive, motor and sensory information is disturbed. The present chapter discusses changes in sensorimotor integration and decision-making, such as in time interval judgment in schizophrenic patients. The results highlight that schizophrenic patients cannot build appropriate and accurate representations of the environment to perform tasks. Some defend schizophrenia as a disorder associated with abnormal neural inputs causing difficulty for these individuals to deal with decision-making feedback. Moreover, the hypothesis that these failures may be due to a dysconnectivity among different brain areas during the sensorimotor integration, and decision-making became attractive.
Connections between the superior parietal cortex and prefrontal cortex during timing and sensorimotor integration. The proposed inbuilt modular clock in the prefrontal cortex is responsible for the decision-making task. The superior parietal cortex does not function properly when there is reduced interference in the role of striatal neural oscillations in the representation of time intervals in the brain during decision-making.
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“Space and time, in fact, are sides of the same coin. The time is relative and cannot be measured in exactly the same way everywhere, thus, the time passes differently for each individual shows a curvature in the fabric of space-time.”
Albert Einstein
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Bittencourt, J. et al. (2022). Schizophrenia: A Disorder of Timing and Sensorimotor Integration During Decision-Making. In: Rezaei, N. (eds) Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health. Integrated Science, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96814-4_6
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