Irena Arslanova - is your body shaping your sense of time?

<p>Fascinating chat!</p> <p>Irena posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/irena_arslanova" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">video on Twitter</a> describing her recent study, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223001744" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Perceived time expands and contracts within each heartbeat</a>, which I thought a brilliant way of sharing. </p> <p>In this episode Irena talks about her work as a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London -- how we experience time, why time sometimes flies by and yet other times drags by, and the role of the brain and the body as one.</p> <p>We get into this, interoception, the embodied mind, predictive processing, science and intuition and much more, using examples from chronic pain, depression and anxiety.</p> <p>Check it out! </p> <p>Follow Irena and her work on her <a href="https://www.irena-arslanova.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">website</a>, on <a href="https://twitter.com/irena_arslanova" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Twitter</a> and her <a href="https://twitter.com/labactionbody" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">lab</a>.</p> <p>_______</p> <p>I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Don&#39;t forget to leave a review and a rating. If you would like to donate to my 65k running fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians, you can <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/page/richmond-stace-1677573413203" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a>.</p> <p><br></p>