At Split-Second Intervals, Brain Has Sense of History

[Orstio]

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=8E2F48DF-E7F2-99DF-3A3C885FD7325BF3&ref=rss

Subconscious, split-second time measurements occur all the time in daily life. When the brain is processing speech, judging the trajectory of a speeding ball, playing (and even appreciating) music it requires using past and present knowledge of the latest stimulus—be it spoken syllables, points in space or musical notes.

Dean Buonomano, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Brain Research Institute, and Uma Karmarkar, a postdoc researcher at U.C., Berkeley, have proposed a model of how the brain tells time that takes into account information from the immediate past while encoding a specific event.

[Sarah90]

And/or have some fun with these: http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/stripped_features/try_online/tryonline.html#   

[nec208]

Subconscious, split-second time measurements occur all the time in daily life.

What do they mean here?

When the brain is processing speech, judging the trajectory of a speeding ball, playing (and even appreciating) music it requires using past and present knowledge of the latest stimulus—be it spoken syllables, points in space or musical notes

The human short term memory is short and long term menory longer ,humans have 2 memory long to memory and short term memory .That say some one shows you a inside of car and each part and how it works all in less than 1 minute you will not remember much .

Or that say you drive to LA and never bean to LA and than go back home are you going to remeber each street ?

A human long to memory will remeber stuff like 4+4= 8 or 5+5=10 this in the long term memory or like how your house looks or your city .But if you have a math problems like 23+44= you may not know it is 67 or if you in a new city you can get lost or new house you may not remember it.
 

[Sarah90]

I guess they lost their minds.