Neuroscience has made considerable progress in unraveling the neural correlates of mental phenomena like self, consciousness, and perception. However, the “common currency” shared between neuronal and mental activity, brain and mind, remains yet unclear. In this article, we propose that the dynamics of time and space provides a “common currency” that connects neuronal and mental features. Time and space are here understood in a dynamic context (as in contemporary physics): that is, in terms of the way the brain's spontaneous activity constructs its spatial and temporal relationships, for instance in terms of functional connectivity and different frequencies of fluctuations. Recruiting recent empirical evidence, we show that the different ways in which the spontaneous activity constructs its “inner time and space” are manifested in distinct mental features. Specifically, we demonstrate how spatiotemporal mechanisms like spatiotemporal repertoire, integration, and speed yield mental features like consciousness, self, and time speed perception. The focus on the brain's spatiotemporal mechanisms entails what we describe as “Spatiotemporal Neuroscience”. Spatiotemporal Neuroscience conceives neuronal activity in terms of its temporo-spatial dynamics rather than its various functions (e.g., cognitive, affective, social, etc.) as in other branches of neuroscience (as distinguished from Cognitive, Affective, Cultural, Social, etc. Neuroscience). That allows Spatiotemporal Neuroscience to take into view the so-called ‘spatio-temporality’ of mental features including their non-causal, intrinsic and transformative relationship with neuronal features. In conclusion, Spatiotemporal Neuroscience opens the door to investigate and ultimately reveal the brain's own temporo-spatial dynamics as the hitherto missing “common currency” of neuronal and mental features.

神经科学在解开自我、意识和感知等心理现象的神经关联方面取得了相当大的进展。然而，神经元和心理活动、大脑和心智之间共享的“共同货币”尚不清楚。在本文中，我们提出时间和空间的动态提供了一种连接神经元和心理特征的“共同货币”。时间和空间在这里是在动态背景下理解的（如在当代物理学中）：也就是说，根据大脑的自发活动构建其空间和时间关系的方式，例如根据功能连接和不同频率的波动。招募最近的经验证据，我们表明，自发活动构建其“内在时间和空间”的不同方式表现在不同的心理特征中。具体来说，我们展示了时空机制（如时空曲目、整合和速度）如何产生意识、自我和时间速度感知等心理特征。对大脑时空机制的关注需要我们所描述的“时空神经科学”。时空神经科学根据其时空动态而不是神经科学的其他分支（与认知、情感、文化、社会等）不同的功能（例如，认知、情感、社会等）来设想神经元活动。神经科学）。这使得时空神经科学能够考虑心理特征的所谓“时空性”，包括它们与神经元特征的非因果、内在和转化关系。总之，时空神经科学为研究并最终揭示大脑自身的时空动力学打开了大门，它是迄今为止缺少的神经元和心理特征的“共同货币”。