Seeing Time in the Brain (half course throughout the year)

Patrick Mayo / Medical School / patrick_mayo@hms.harvard.edu

*Neurobiology 95hfy, Thursdays 7 – 8:30 p.m., Robinson 107

Time critically shapes our perceptual experience, yet how the brain represents time is poorly understood.  This course investigates the experience of time from multiple perspectives, focusing on a systems-level analysis of visual time perception.  Topics include illusions of time, models of time perception, neuronal mechanisms of time, the meaning of timescales, and the influence of expectation on neural activity. Prerequisites: LPSA/LS 1a, MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12. (catalog # 72995)