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Touch and Time: Study Looks for a Sensory Stopwatch in the Brain – Technology Networks
A SISSA team of investigators has reported a new theory for how we sense the passage of time as we process sensory stimuli.
The percept of time relates to the sense of touch. A new SISSA study “A sensory integration account for time perception” published in PLOS Computational Biology uncovers this connection. “The challenge to neuroscience posed by the sense of time lies, first and foremost, in the fact there do not exist dedicated receptors – the passage of time is a sensory experience constructed without sensors,” notes Mathew Diamond, director of the Tactile Perception and Learning Lab. “One might imagine a precise…
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