Just read this lighthearted look at why our perception of time differs depending on what we are doing.

BBC News

Today my brains' measurement of time is very acurate

If anyone is interested, the original article is very well done. It is in Science. I happen to have the stimuli, if anyone wants to nerd out and take a look at them.

this looks like a very interesting article. Thanks.

In fact, it looks a great first article for discussion in the neuroscience journal club, once it gets started....

here's the Science Mag link: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/5663/1506



Functional Anatomy of the Attentional Modulation of Time Estimation
Jennifer T. Coull, Franck Vidal, Bruno Nazarian, Francoise Macar

Attention modulates our subjective perception of time. The less we attend to an event's duration, the shorter it seems to last. Attention to time or color stimulus attributes was modulated parametrically in an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Linear increases in task performance were accompanied by corresponding increases in brain activity. Increasing attention to time selectively increased activity in a corticostriatal network, including pre–supplementary motor area and right frontal operculum. Increasing attention to color selectively increased activity in area V4. By identifying areas whose activity was specifically modulated by attention to time, we have defined the core neuroanatomical substrates of timing behavior.

i am very interested in this topic, further want to know more about it. who can offer me the related papers to read. thanks a lot.

Are you interested in the physics of time dilation or one of these things?

Variable Light Speed
Time Travel (a proven fact for sub-atomic material and thus with VR and holography combined with Harmonics to access energy of the lattices and in conjuction with exoctic matter like element 115 - we can have Worm Holes)
The NEC labs that developed 300X light speed in the summer of 2001 and Mr Everett of the US Army letting out contracts later that year for FTL information transfer.
Action at a distance - see The Primer Project and other links at the bottom of my page at World-Mysteries
Al Bielek

Thanks, my major is psychology, so my focus is on psychological time. our organism have not a special receptor to perceive time. the perception or estimation of time must occur in our brain. which area is related to this processing? This article tell us the answer based on fMRI research. Great, I am very interested in the finding. If possible, I want to discuss this topic with anybody.