Time warped / Claudia Hammond.

Cover subtitle: Unlocking the mysteries of time perception

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2013.

342 pages ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Time Illusion -- Your Time Is My Time -- Time's Surprises -- Time Slows Down When You're Afraid -- Throwing People Off Buildings -- Not the Kindest of Experiments -- Hyperactive Time -- Diving For Time -- Five Times a Day for 45 Years -- How to Make Time Stand Still -- 2. Mind Clocks -- Electrifying the Brain -- The Man Who Thought the Working Day Had Finished -- The Perfect Sleep -- Emotional Moments -- The Oddball Effect -- The Magic of Three -- Heading for a Precipice Blindfolded -- Is the Brain Timing Itself? -- Operation Time -- 3. Monday is Red -- Months Go Round In a Circle -- The Millennium Problem -- Colour-in History -- The SNARC Effect -- Do We See All Time In Space? -- Time, Space and Language -- Time and Space Mixed Up -- When Is Wednesday's Meeting? -- The River of Time -- Making Time Go Backwards -- Mellow Monday and Furious Friday -- 4. Why Time Speeds Up As You Get Older -- Autobiographical Memory -- Total Recall.

Contents note continued: When Time Speeds Up -- Life Through a Telescope -- Take Two Items a Day For Five Years -- Time-Stamping the Past -- Everything Shook -- A Thousand Days -- The Reminiscence Bump -- Remembering Moments, Not Days -- The Holiday Paradox -- 5. Remembering the Future -- Time-Travelling Into the Future -- Can Your Dog Picture Next Week? -- What Are You Doing Tomorrow? -- Memories For Events That Never Happened -- Suicide Island -- Thinking About Nothing -- An Erroneous Future -- Bad Choices -- Five Years to Reach the Word Ànt' -- One Marshmallow Or Two? -- Future-Orientated Thinking -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 6. Changing Your Relationship with Time -- Time Is Speeding Up -- Making Time Go Faster -- Too Much To Do, Too Little Time -- Failing to Plan Ahead -- A Poor Memory For the Past -- Worrying Too Much About the Future -- Trying to Live in the Present -- Predicting How You'll Feel in the Future -- In Conclusion.