#762 Dean Buonomano: The Neuroscience of Time
RECORDED ON DECEMBER 12th 2022.
Dr. Dean Buonomano is Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research goal is to understand how neurons develop selective responses to temporal features such as duration, interval and order. He is the author of Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape our Lives, and Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time.
In this episode, we talk about the neuroscience of timing. We start by discussing how to understand time from the perspective of neuroscience, and how the brain processes time. We talk about factors that influence our perception of time, when it comes to duration, interval, and order. We discuss the relationship between neural time and subjective time, how the brain encodes neural time in patterns of neural activity, and if there are brain regions specialized in time processing. We talk about the interaction between timing and the sensory systems, and timing as an intrinsic property of neural networks. We discuss the relationship between neural time and the physical nature of time. Finally, we talk about what a mental clock is.
Time Links:
Intro
Time from the perspective of neuroscience
How does the brain process time?
Factors that influence our perception of time (duration and order)
The relationship between neural time and subjective time
How the brain encodes time in patterns of neural activity
Brain regions specialized in time processing
The interaction between timing and the sensory systems
Memory
Is timing an intrinsic property of neural networks?
The relationship between neural time and the physical nature of time
Is there a mental clock?
Follow Dr. Buonomano’s work!
Follow Dr. Buonomano’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3QQoKsy
Buonomano Lab: https://bit.ly/3Qvku1N
Works on ResearchGate: https://bit.ly/3dBdYaX
Amazon page: https://amzn.to/3EvO9F0
Your Brain is a Time Machine: https://bit.ly/3BvEj3k