How we perceive time? Mechanisms, riddles and paradoxes
St Petersburg University and its Representative Office in Barcelona invite you to the online lecture "How we perceive time? Mechanisms, riddles and paradoxes". The lecture will be delivered by Daria Podvigina, Candidate of Psychology.
We all have ability to feel and estimate duration of various events, though we don’t have special organ or time perception system. Which features of the functioning of the brain allow to navigate in time? Why sometimes it feels like time is flying by so fast and sometimes it drags on.
Why does time seem to fly by, or conversely, seem to drag on? What does it mean "right now", and what is its actual duration? And the question that’s on everyone’s mind: in what time do we live? During this lecture we will find answers to these and many other questions.
Lecturer
Daria Podvigina graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at St Petersburg University in 2002 and started working at Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the same year. Since 2015, she has been Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies at St Petersburg University (since 2020 — the Institute for Cognitive Studies at the University). Her main research interests are neurophysiological and psychophysiological mechanisms of visual perception and recognition of complex images. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly papers. In addition to her research activities, she teaches a number of courses at the Institute for Cognitive Studies and at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St Petersburg University (lecture courses "Introduction to Life Sciences", "Human: Evolution, Culture, Behaviour", and others).
The lecture will be held as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the oldest university in Russia.
The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.