The nature and neuroscience of time

WTI Inspiring Speaker Series: Questions pertaining to the nature of time span physics, philosophy, and neuroscience, but time is particularly fundamental in neuroscience because the brain tells time, stores information about the past in order to predict the future, and allows us to engage in mental time travel. Because of the fundamental importance of time, the brain can tell time across a broad range of temporal scales, but relies on different mechanisms across these scales. In this talk, Dean Buonomano describes experimental and neurocomputational work—indicating that the brain uses its inherent neural dynamics to tell time on a scale of seconds and produce appropriately timed motor behaviors necessary for survival.