Your Brain Is a Time Machine

Name: Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
SKU: 9780393355604
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The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

By Dean Buonomano

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Your Brain Is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano delves into the fascinating intricacies of how our brains perceive time. The book explores the neurological processes behind our understanding of past, present, and future events. Buonomano draws on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and physics, offering a compelling examination of time's role in human cognition and experience.
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This book may appeal to you if you are intrigued by the mysteries of time perception and the brain's ability to interpret and anticipate the passage of time. By combining insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and physics, it offers a fresh perspective on how we understand time and our place within it. If you enjoy exploring complex ideas about how our minds shape our experience of reality, this book provides a fascinating journey.

Your Brain Is a Time Machine

A neuroscientist investigates how the architecture of the human brain shapes our understanding of the nature of time.

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In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an immensely engaging exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel" - simulations of future and past events.

These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.

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Dean Buonomano's Your Brain Is a Time Machine offers a compelling exploration of how the brain perceives and experiences time. With engaging writing and illustrative examples, Buonomano addresses the often-misunderstood differences between physical time and our personal experience of it. The book is praised for being both thorough and accessible, appealing to those interested in neuroscience and physics.

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ISBN: 9780393355604

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 May 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: 22 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Dean Buonomano is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA and a leading theorist on the neuroscience of time. His previous book, Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller.