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Is it impossible for our brains to talk about the ability to perceive time, even if only a thousandth of a second, the original code may be just a long beep. But today, scientists have discovered the first clues that help explain how this mental activity works, even if we are not sending a telegram. credit.

For decades, neuroscientists have always believed that our brain has a special region that holds the function of storing time signals. Today that perspective is gradually changing, instead scientists believe that the functioning of neurons in the nervous system helps us to sense the passage of time. But exactly this process is still a mystery.

In order to study the nature of the problem, at the University of California and Los Angeles, two neuroscientists Dean Buonomano and Uma Karmarkar, now Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, proposed a concept called " status". Thai excited '. The above concept is construed as follows: assuming we put the red paint droplets into a white paint container, the first drop of paint will fall into the box containing the white paint completely, but every next time, the paint box will now be increasingly turned pink, no longer white as before.

The two of you think that our brain works the same way. Typically, when we hear the first beep of a Morse vehicle, nerve impulses will stimulate our brain to cause a different state than when we have not heard the sound, and if we hear the second time, the This stimulus will continue to cause another state. The team has re-modeled the interaction between nerve impulses when under constant influence by different stimuli.

To test their claims, the researchers tested volunteers to determine the distance between two signals. Some signals are played continuously, the rest are further apart. Most volunteers differentiate this difference. However, if they make some sounds to distract the focus of the volunteers, learning cannot feel exactly the same as before. Scientists explained in Neuron that the noise will distract us from the goal we have set in mind , which is similar to throwing a pebble at a quiet lake and ripple lake. wave. We will see that only when the lake is quiet will we see the exact shape of the ripples.

Warren Meck, a philosopher at Duke University in Durham, said: 'This finding gives us a new perspective on the dialectical relationship of time between the phenomena or things we encounter in the day. '.

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