Seminar Details
2007-02-20 (14pm) : Colloquium CESAME "An experimental and theoretical investigation of the relationship between objective and subjective time"
At Auditoire Euler
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Missal, Marcus
Abstract :
Nobody knows what time really is. Events in the world do not occur simultaneously but are separated by something that we call time.
To this objective time line in the outside world corresponds an inner, subjective perception of elapsed time. The relationship between objective
and subjective times can be studied with psychophysical and neurophysiological methods. This conference will review the accumulated
knowledge about the representation of elapsed time, and present an original study of the relationship between outer and inner "times".
We will show that this theoretical question has important practical implications in neurology.