At the end of this New Scientist article, there is a brief outline of the neural basis for protensity:
"One of the more tiresome aspects of ageing is that while the days seem to drag, the years rush by. This paradox is not simply subjective: researchers are finding that our brains actually oscillate with a tick-tock that marks the passage of time, and this winds down as we grow older, making time seem to fly (New Scientist, 4 February, p 34). As yet, scientists have not come up with a way to speed the clock back up, but building temporal landmarks with memorable experiences can create the opposite illusion, so the years seem to pass more slowly".
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I'd say fluid intelligence decline would be closely linked to age-related time-perception changes. When we use prefrontal brain areas to regulate our behaviour time seems longer, so when we begin to lose this ability time may gradually seem to fly by: self-regulation and the extended now
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