2024
Dynamic Snapshots and Artificial Temporality
Do AI systems have any purchase on time — on the flow of experience from past through present to anticipated future? An exploration of what temporal structure in neural networks can and cannot simulate.
2020
The Musical Structure of Time in the Brain
An investigation of how the temporal structure of brain dynamics mirrors the formal properties of music — bridging neuroscience, phenomenology, and musical theory.
2018
Notes toward a Theory of Sensory-Motor Understanding
Sketching a theory of how perception and action are unified in understanding — and what that implies for the embodied, time-saturated character of conscious experience.
2016
Hearing, Seeing, and Music in the Middle
On the phenomenology of musical experience — how hearing and seeing converge in the perception of music, and what this reveals about the mind's integration of sensory modalities.
2014
The Disunity of Time; Subjective Time: From Past to Future
Two closing chapters in the volume, both with Valtteri Arstila — a reflection on the experimental psychology of time perception, and a synthesis of how subjective time spans past, present, and future.
With Valtteri Arstila, in Subjective Time, MIT Press, 2014, pp. 658–663 and 309–321
2012
Neural Correlates of Temporality: Default Mode Variability and Temporal Awareness
An investigation of how spontaneous fluctuations in default mode network activity relate to the brain's construction of temporal awareness — linking resting-state variability to the felt passage of time.
2007
Civil Schizophrenia
On schizophrenia as a disorder of temporal self-awareness — and what that implies for how we understand both the illness and the structure of normal conscious experience.
2002
Functional MRI and the Study of Human Consciousness
A secondary analysis of four fMRI datasets applying phenomenological concepts — intentionality, superposition, and temporality — to the study of consciousness. Multivariate methods reveal neural analogues of temporal structure across 27 subjects.
