Warren Meck is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. An internationally recognized expert on time perception, Prof. Meck’s research explores the neural basis of the “internal clocks” humans and other animals use to time events in seconds, minutes, and hours.

Meck is the recipient of fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, James McKeen Cattell Fund, French National Center for Scientific Research, and the National Science Council of Taiwan. He is the editor of Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing.

His work has been featured in the BBC documentaries “The Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?” (1999) and “Time” (2006), as well as the Red Hill Studios collaboration with the National Science Foundation “Exploring Time” documentary (2007).

Past Events

• Time the Familiar Stranger Mysteries of Mind and Time

  2009 Festival

  Oliver Sacks and psychologist Daniel Gilbert draw on converging insights from physical, biological and neurological perspectives to reflect on this most vital factor shaping the human experience.

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