How Your Brain Tells Time
From StarTalk. In this StarTalk segment, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly talk with Dean Buonomano about how brains “tell time” differently from manmade clocks. Dean contrasts oscillation-based devices (pendulums, quartz, atomic clocks) with neural timing, arguing the brain often uses evolving activity patterns (dynamics) more like an hourglass than a ticking metronome—while…
































































