Your brain is a time machine
Subtitle: the neuroscience and physics of time
By: Dean Buonomano
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780393247947
Subjects: Brain; Physiology; Time perception
Description: A leading 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Brain time. Flavors of time; title: The best time machine you'll ever own; title: Day and night; title: The sixth sense; title: Patterns in time; title: Time, neural dynamics, and chaos; title: Part II. The physical and mental nature of time. Keeping time; title: Time : what the hell is it?; title: The spatialization of time in physics; title: The spatialization of time in neuroscience; title: Mental time travel; title: Consciousness : binding the past and the future.