Selective deficit of time perception in a patient with right prefrontal cortex lesion

The neural systems underlying subjective perception of time are of interest for neuroscientists. Previous studies in humans and in animals have documented a role of the cerebellum basal ganglia as an internal clock of discrete temporal units.1,2 data from focal lesion investigations have suggested that frontal and the parietal lobes also are critical for time perception, especially for their role in attention and in maintaining the of subjective time in the working memory.3,4 Neuropsychological and functional imaging studies have supported importance of the prefrontal cortex in the perception and in comparison of time intervals.5 describe the case of a patient who had a selective impairment in the perception of events’ duration