Felt Time: The Science of How We Experience Time

by Marc Wittmann

Book Overview

An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.

We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we there yet?") Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing). As people grow older, time seems to speed up, the years flitting by without a pause. How does our sense of time come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533545
• ISBN13: 9780262533546
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher