The article explains how the brain processes the passage of time through three distinct processing stages across different cortical areas, from initial visual encoding to higher level time categorization and subjective perception.

The findings highlight a layered view of time processing, showing how physical duration becomes a subjective experience through spatially organized neural maps and stage-specific functions, which is of interest to psychology due to insights into perception, cognition, and decision making.

Article Title: The human brain processes the passage of time across three distinct stages

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/the-human-brain-processes-the-passage-of-time-across-three-distinct-stages/

#timeperception #neuroscience #cognition #neuralcoding #visualperception #subjectiveexperience #frontallobe #parietalcortex #premotor #neuralmaps

🧠 New paper by Safaai et al. (2025): parietal #cortex output populations show highly structured, task-dependent population geometry. Using multi-area recordings and circuit modeling, they show that #parietal populations display organized task-related patterns rather than uniform mixed coding, and that distinct output groups shape how decisions are routed to downstream targets:

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02095-x

#Neuroscience #NeuralCoding #ParietalCortex #PopulationDynamics #DecisionMaking