Subjective Time

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time.Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition distinguishing memory perception and anticipation. This milestone volume brings together research on temporality from leading scholars in philosophy psychology and neuroscience defining a new field of interdisciplinary research. The book's thirty chapters include selections from classic texts by William James and Edmund Husserl and new essays setting them in historical context; contemporary philosophical accounts of lived time; and current empirical studies of psychological time. These last chapters the larger part of the book cover such topics as the basic psychophysics of psychological time its neural foundations its interaction with the body and its distortion in illness and altered states of consciousness. ContributorsMelissa J. Allman Holly Andersen Valtteri Arstila Yan Bao Dean V. Buonomano Niko A. Busch Barry Dainton Sylvie Droit-Volet Christine M. Falter Thomas Fraps Shaun Gallagher Alex O. Holcombe Edmund Husserl William James Piotr Ja?kowski Jeremie Jozefowiez Ryota Kanai Allison N. Kurti Dan Lloyd Armando Machado Matthew S. Matell Warren H. Meck James Mensch Bruno Mölder Catharine Montgomery Konstantinos Moutoussis Peter Naish Valdas Noreika Sukhvinder S. Obhi Ruth Ogden Alan o'Donoghue Georgios Papadelis Ian B. Phillips Ernst Pöppel John E. R. Staddon Dale N. Swanton Rufin VanRullen Argiro Vatakis Till M. Wagner John Wearden Marc Wittmann Agnieszka Wykowska Kielan Yarrow Bin Yin Dan Zahavi