10/02/2025
Join us for our upcoming Virtual Journal Club!
Date: February 26th, 2025
Time: 10 am (EST)
Speaker: Dr. Marc Wittmann, Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany.
Title: Embodied Time: How the Brain and Body Process Time
Abstract:
The mystery of time consciousness may finally be unraveling. Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that the brain processes subjective time through the insular cortex and the supplementary motor area (SMA). The insula, the brain’s primary sensory interoceptive cortex, receives and interprets signals from bodily organs and tissues. Growing evidence from functional neuroimaging and psychophysiological studies suggests that subjective time judgments are deeply connected to both bodily and emotional experiences. Perceiving time’s passage and judging duration depend on brain regions that mediate the interaction between the body and the external world (SMA), as well as the processing of internal bodily signals (insula).
BIO:
Marc Wittmann, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz, University of Munich. Between 2004 to 2009 he was a research fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the MIT Press books Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time published in 2016 and Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self published in 2018.
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