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Time on The Mind.(Brief article)

Newsweek International,  February, 2007  by Adler, Jerry

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Byline: JERRY ADLER

How does the brain track time intervals? A new paper in the journal Neuron by Dean Buonomano of the UCLA Brain Research Institute proposed a theory that time is measured not like a clock, but by tracking changes in neurons as they propagate through the brain following some kind of signal or event, such as hearing a sound that could be either the word "the" or the start of "this." Imagine throwing a pebble into a ...

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