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Buonomano, Dean.
Your brain is a time machine
[BOOK] :
the neuroscience and physics of time /
Dean Buonomano.
Neuroscience and physics of time.
First edition.
New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
293 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Brain time. Flavors of time ; The best time machine you'll ever own ; Day and night ; The sixth sense ; Patterns in time ; Time, neural dynamics, and chaos -- Part II: The physical and mental nature of time. Keeping time ; Time : what the hell is it? ; The spatialization of time in physics ; The spatialization of time in neuroscience ; Mental time travel ; Consciousness : binding the past and the future.
A neuroscientist presents a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the mind, arguing that the human brain's complex system constructs our sense of chronological flow in ways that are essential to evolution and everyday survival.
20170407.
Brain
Physiology.
Time perception.