Time Perception |
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Time is a physical dimension that pervades many aspects of perception, action, cognition, and consciousness - yet science knows relatively little about how time is represented and used in the brain, nor about how it appears in conscious experience. To address such interesting problems, I combine cognitive neuroscience (EEG, TMS, fMRI), psychophysical, and computational modelling approaches to examine how the human brain constructs temporal perception. I am currently engaged in experiments that explore how the brain may code for time, time distortions, time in virtual reality, interoceptive influences on time perception, and timing between individuals in social contexts.
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I previously worked at the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Dr. Max Di Luca where I worked on Bayesian time perception in the context of event-timing.
I am still working on this - and I am currently planning experiments to investigate the role of space in temporal perception. Most of my work now is with the supremely brilliant Warrick Roseboom. |
I am interested in how the brain makes decisions about time. I have put together a model of such a process where I suggest that human beings are are not passive observers of time. We use knowledge about when a stimulus may occur, and combine that with current sensory information in order to arrive at an optimal decision about the timing of a stimulus. More on this kind of thinking here!
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Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. Lead by Prof Anil Seth is where the TimeStorm group is situated at the University of Sussex.
The TimeStorm Group.
I am lucky enough to work as part of the TimeStorm EU Collaborative project. TimeStorm aims to explore the multitude of ways that time affects cognition. Accordingly, the project puts forward the notion of Entimed Cognition (enT-C) which postulates that intelligent thinking is largely determined by the temporal properties of the cognitive processes and the consideration of real world phenomena in association with the flow of time.
In other words, it is because of the entimed nature of cognition, that we are capable of considering the temporal information accompanying events and accomplishing the association of asynchronous percepts, emotions and activities.
A photo of the lovely people working on this grant is below. No prizes for spotting me.
In other words, it is because of the entimed nature of cognition, that we are capable of considering the temporal information accompanying events and accomplishing the association of asynchronous percepts, emotions and activities.
A photo of the lovely people working on this grant is below. No prizes for spotting me.
Part of the TimeStorm EU collaborative project
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The following video shows two agents collaborating in cereal-milk preparation. The planner distributes tasks to agents aiming to maximize their usability for the team. |
