The inner experience of time

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1525, 2009, Pages 1955-1967

  Wittmann, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Insula; Interoception; Subjective duration; Time perception

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

EID: 67650236639     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0003     Document Type: Review

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