New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time

Re:New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time by epalmer on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:45AM (#10988822)

I've been amazed most of my life at how well some people can estimate time, distance, weight, quantity with precision and accuracy. My grandmother was able to estimate tablespoons, teaspoons, cups etc for baking and never measured anything.

I'm wondering of all these sorts of skills are active in the same part of the brain.

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Re:New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time by norea-armozel on Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:41PM (#10990196)

I would think so because I've read one study of monkeys and the economic concept of marginal utility where the researchers found that the monkeys would measure the marginal utility of one kind of food versus another (3 apples vs 6 bananas and so forth). So, if you can measure that I'm certain the brain can adapt to different units of measure in all conceivable categories.

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