Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T22:52:47.656Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Ritualized behavior in animals and humans: Time, space, and attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

David Eilam
David Eilam*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel http://www.tau.ac.il/~eilam
*
eilam@post.tau.ac.il
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract:

A study of the organization of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) rituals in time and space illuminates a postulated mechanism on shifting focus in action parsing, from mid-ranged actions to finer movements (gestures). Performance of OCD rituals also involves high concentration rather than the automated, less attended performance of rituals in normal and stereotyped behaviors in animals and humans.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 616 - 617
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)