Time warped : unlocking the mysteries of time perception / Claudia Hammond.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2012Edition: [1st edition]Description: 342 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781847677907
  • 1847677908
  • 9780062225207
  • 0062225200
  • 1847677894
  • 9781847677891
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Contents:
Time illusion -- Mind clocks -- Monday is red -- Why time speeds up as you get older -- Remembering the future -- Changing your relationship with time.
BU Faculty Frontlist.Summary: We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? It draws on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and biology and more!
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room BF468 .H35 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000053427

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time illusion -- Mind clocks -- Monday is red -- Why time speeds up as you get older -- Remembering the future -- Changing your relationship with time.

BU Faculty Frontlist.

We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? It draws on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and biology and more!

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