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The Secret Pulse of Time

Disciplines:
psychology
physics
neuroscience
philosophy/time

Summary

Stefan Klein's 2007 exploration of the science of subjective time — examining why time speeds up with age, slows in danger, and varies with attention — synthesizing physics, psychology, and neuroscience.

Core Contribution

Creates the popular science of temporal perception — The Secret Pulse of Time synthesizes research on the neural basis of time perception, the psychology of time's apparent speed, and physics of time to explain everyday temporal experience.

Historical Influences

William James Einstein Neuroscience of timing

Intellectual Lineage

Stefan Klein Da Capo Press

Allied Works

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics The Order of Time

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Popular time perception science

Intellectual Posterity

The Secret Pulse of Time

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