Your brain is a time machine : the neuroscience and physics of time / Dean Buonomano.
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.
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.