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Marc Wittmann is a German psychologist and neuroscientist at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg. His research focuses on time perception, consciousness, and bodily awareness.
Known for: Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
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Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
In this book, Marc Wittmann explores how humans experience time subjectively. He explains why time seems to pass faster as we age, how consciousness and time perception are connected, and what role the brain plays in perceiving duration. Combining insights from psychology and neuroscience, Wittmann makes the human sense of time comprehensible.
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The Biological and Psychological Foundations of Time Perception
Everyday timekeeping relies on mechanical or atomic precision, but the brain measures duration through patterns of neural activity. In my research, I found that there is no single 'clock' inside the head; instead, many distributed systems contribute to timing. Neurons in the basal ganglia, cerebellu...
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Bodily Awareness and the Sense of Time
One of the themes that guides my work is that time sense is inseparable from body sense. Our temporal experience is anchored in the felt rhythms of bodily life—an experience psychologists call interoception, the awareness of internal bodily states. When we sit quietly and feel our pulse or our bre...
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About Marc Wittmann
Marc Wittmann is a German psychologist and neuroscientist at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg. His research focuses on time perception, consciousness, and bodily awareness.
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