Your Brain Is a Time Machine

The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Dean Buonomano (UCLA)

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Norton
05 May 2017

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Mathematics & Sciences; Time (chronology), time systems & standards; Neurosciences

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.

By: Dean Buonomano (UCLA)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 473g
ISBN: 9780393247947
ISBN 10: 0393247945
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 05 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Our experience of time is not the same as time itself; the former is largely our creation. French philosopher Henri Bergson once publicly debated this point with Einstein - and lost. If only he'd had recourse to this book, written by one of the first neuroscientists to ask how the human brain encodes time. Take that, Albert! -- Science books we're keen to read in 2017 - New Scientist ... a readable exploration of how the architecture of the human brain shapes our understanding of the nature of time. -- The Bookseller