New environments stretch time because of their unfamiliarity. Absorption contracts time because our attention becomes narrow, ...

and altered states of consciousness. She has extensive experience in research on dreams, sleep, memory consolidation, and meditation practices: she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in ...

Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford ... McNamara offers powerful cognitive neuroscientific explanations for how altered states of consciousness, such as in ...