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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on November 14, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(1):157-165; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbl056
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Disturbances of Time Consciousness From a Phenomenological and a Neuroscientific Perspective

Kai Vogeley1,2,3 and Christian Kupke3
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Kerpener Street 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany
3 Department of Psychiatry, Society for Philosophy and Sciences of the Psyche, Charité, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: kai.vogeley{at}uk-koeln.de.

The subjective experience of time is a fundamental constituent of human consciousness and can be disturbed under conditions of mental disorders such as schizophrenia or affective disorders. Besides the scientific domain of psychiatry, time consciousness is a topic that has been extensively studied both by theoretical philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. It can be shown that both approaches exemplified by the philosophical analysis of time consciousness (Husserl) and the neuroscientific theory of cross-temporal contingencies (binding of cognitive processes over time) as the neurophysiological basis of human consciousness implemented in the prefrontal cortex (Fuster) converge in 2 respects. Firstly, a tripartite conception of consciousness divides human cognition in 3 different temporal domains comprising retention, presentation, and protention (Husserl) and the past, the present, and the future corresponding to working memory, interference control, and preparatory set (Fuster). Secondly, both concepts refer to the present as an extended duration that integrates information from the recent past and the future. We propose that the integration of phenomenological and neuroscientific approaches can stimulate the development of enriched pathophysiological concepts of mental disorders. This approach appears to be particularly fruitful with respect to schizophrenia that is interpreted as a structural disturbance of time consciousness.

Keywords: time experience / schizophrenia / organization of behavior in time / phenomenology / cognitive neuroscience / prefrontal cortex


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