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October 21, 2009
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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension - life - 21 October 2009 - New Scientist
When we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. Eagleman wanted to know whether the brain’s clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain’s workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.