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Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time.
New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.
“Time” doesn’t mean just one thing to the brain. Different brain regions rely on varied neural mechanisms to track its passage, and the mechanisms that govern our experience seem to change from one situation to the next.
By Jordana Cepelewicz
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reasons-revealed-for-the-brains-elastic-sense-of-time-20200924/
Paper:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0698-3