Speaker: Dr. Virginie van Wassenhove, Research Director, CEA, DRF/Joliot, NeuroSpin, France.

Time: 10:00 - 11:30, May 16th, 2019

Venue: #1113，Wangkezhen Building，Peking University

Abstract: The neural mechanisms supporting temporal cognition remain debated. In this talk, I will reframe temporalities from the perspective of the brain itself (as generator-observer of events) as opposed to that of the external observer. I will illustrate the importance of oscillatory activity in low-level temporal logistics of information processing for instance yielding temporal order and behavioral precision. I will also discuss recent findings showing that conscious timing may not linearly map onto neural timing – i.e., that temporalities are represented abstractly and intelligibly - and exemplify this with recent work focused on the generative nature of the psychological time arrow (mental time travel), and the ability to introspect about one’s self-generated timing productions (temporal metacognition).

Host: Prof. Huan Luo

2019-05-09