Your brain thinks you were first, even if you weren’t

'I got there first!' How your subjective experience of time makes you think you did – even when you didn't [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 25 April 2019 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Editor's note Imagine two basketball players simultaneously lunged for the ball as it headed out of bounds. Both swear they weren’t the last to touch it. Is someone lying? Is it a case of wishful thinking? Arizona State cognitive scientist Ty Tang decided to investigate this split-second sports scenario with an experiment that could identify differences in [how people perceive the timing]( of externally generated events versus those they cause themselves. A growing number of the people applying for asylum on the southern border of the U.S. are women. Many of these Central American migrants have survived sexual violence and human trafficking. Laurie C. 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