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Brain Storm Time
"She in any case lived in time, with it and because of it. Time was a material, a matter good and dear. And the fact of 'being in time' she also lived it as a sport which, in the long run at least, was perhaps the only healthy one" (Peter Handke, The fruit thief, 2017)
This Topical Collection focuses on perception, memory and use of time We "live in time" by inhabiting the present and imagining the future. Time is the stuff of our memories, in which a certain point in "time" is happy and another is sad. We "chase time", to make up for minutes lost in the day, and for deciding how best to use hours in the day and days in the month. We even “waste time” at times.
But what are the brain mechanisms that enable us to handle time so easily, and to adapt it to our needs? How do we represent time? And what happens when we lose one or more of our abilities to perceive the passage of time due to brain damage?
The idea of this Topical Collection stems from discussions held at the “Brain Storm Time” conference (Bologna, June 23-24 2022). The goal is to provide a diverse and engaging collection of works on this topic from the conference speakers, their collaborators and anyone is interested. If you’d like to contribute an Original Article or Review, please get in touch with the Guest Editors - Prof. Elisa Ciaramelli and Prof. Massimiliano Oliveri.
Editors
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Elisa Ciaramelli
Prof. Ciaramelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna. She studies how we construct memories of past events and representations of events that may happen in the future, the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying both processes, or specific to each of them, and their psychological function. A related line of research is on the rehabilitation of memory in patients with brain lesion or dysfunction.
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Massimiliano Oliveri
Prof. Oliveri is Full Professor at the Department of Psychological, Pedagogical, Exercise and Training Sciences, University of Palermo. His research focuses on the study of cortical plasticity, connectivity and excitability on healthy and clinical population using TMS-EEG. In particular, he is interested in the neural correlates of higher cognitive functions such as memory, language, and time perception.
