Name: Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time?
Uploaded: 2025-01-10T15:46:32Z
Duration: 9 min 25 s
Description: Do you ever feel like time slows down when you’re bored but flies when you’re having fun? Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova explores the ways your brain and heart shape your perception of time, revealing how your heartbeat doesn’t just keep you alive — it also influences whether moments feel fleeting or stretched.

Do you ever feel like time slows down when you’re bored but flies when you’re having fun? Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova explores the ways your brain and heart shape your perception of time, revealing how your heartbeat doesn’t just keep you alive — it also influences whether moments feel fleeting or stretched.

Irena Arslanova: Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time? 

Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time? 

Heartbeat influences time perception; rapid beats shorten it, slower ones lengthen it, shaping how moments are experienced.

Interoception, like feeling one's heartbeat, offers clues to brain-body sync, affecting our perception and action readiness.

Time feels slower when bored and faster when engaged, a phenomenon influenced by internal states like heart rate variations.