How does the mind gauge time?
If you were to stand alone in a completely unstimulating room and asked to count to ten in your head before walking out, how would you know when the time is up?
I imagine most people, myself included, could quite accuratly gauge about ten seconds. But how does the mind do this?
I would have thought that there must be some kind of oscillator in the human brain. You cannot judge speed without a sense of time, and I would guess that you cannot have a sense of time without some kind of reference, hense an oscillation of some sort.
Can anyone suggest things that the brain could 'latch on to' in order to obtain a time reference? Perhaps just a loop of neurons?
If you were to stand alone in a completely unstimulating room and asked to count to ten in your head before walking out, how would you know when the time is up?
I imagine most people, myself included, could quite accuratly gauge about ten seconds. But how does the mind do this?
I would have thought that there must be some kind of oscillator in the human brain. You cannot judge speed without a sense of time, and I would guess that you cannot have a sense of time without some kind of reference, hense an oscillation of some sort.
Can anyone suggest things that the brain could 'latch on to' in order to obtain a time reference? Perhaps just a loop of neurons?