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Author Buonomano, Dean.

Title Your brain is a time machine : the neuroscience and physics of time / Dean Buonomano.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  612.82 BUO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  612.82 BUONOMANO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  612.8 BUN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  612.82 BUONOMANO    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  612.82 BUO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  612.82 BUONOMANO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-278) and index.
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.
Summary 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.
Subject Brain -- Physiology.
Time perception.
Brain -- Physiology. (OCoLC)fst00837651
Time perception. (OCoLC)fst01151148
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology.
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience.
SCIENCE / Time.
ISBN 9780393247947 (hardcover)
0393247945 (hardcover)
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