The 25 hour day

• Autores: Caroline Williams
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2537, 2006, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recently, interval timing was something of a psychological backwater, says John Wearden of Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. While the biological basis of the circadian and millisecond clocks were fairly understood, no one could find the biological stopwatch people use for interval timing. As a result, many thought that perception of time was little more than a side effect of general cognition and refused to see it as a discipline in its own right. But now, parts of the brain have been singled out as being specialized for timekeeping, and getting tantalizing glimpses of what it is that makes one ticks.