How the human brain builds our sense of time

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how the brain constructs the perception of time, as shown by research published in PLOS Biology by Valeria Centanino, Gianfranco Fortunato, and Domenica Bueti. Starting from what we see—such as an approaching ball—temporal information is processed by the brain through progressively more complex stages: from the occipital visual cortex, to parietal and premotor areas, and finally to frontal regions.