Here's an experiment in which my lab studied time perception by dropping volunteer subjects from a 150 foot high tower. Free fall. Subjects are going 70 miles per hour when the hit the net.
Want more details? The results of our experiment are published here.
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For many years I've been studying how human brains perceive the passage of time.
I posted before about my scanning of a 3,000 year old mummy, Neskhons. Now, by analyzing the data in several different ranges of electron density, I've found something unexpected: inside the mummy's torso are 4 small funerary amulets.
Can we reproduce our brains on other media (say, on computers, or out of beer cans and tennis balls)?
Listen to British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the story "Descent of Species" from Sum. He is one of the dozens of terrific voices who read for the audio book.
Barnes and Noble selected SUM as one of the Best Books of the Year.
Why should the US invest in brain science? See David's opinion in the New York Times.
