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

by Dean Buonomano

Book Overview

In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393247945
• ISBN13: 9780393247947
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"