Why does time seem to fly when we're having fun? A new study explains: Science
from a pair of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, time-sensitive neurons in our brains get “worn out” from certain tasks, skewing our perception of time as a result.the neurons in the ‘supramarginal gyrus’ part of the brain, which processes touch and speech, become fatigued when they’re repeatedly exposed to a stimulus of a fixed duration. However, since the neurons in the other parts of the brain continue to fire like normal, our perception of time becomes skewed.
To test this, the study’s participants – 18 men and women aged between 18 and 27 – underwent brain scans while they completed tasks on a computer. To start with, they were shown a “visual adaptator” for a set length of time. After they’d completed this step 30 times, they were then shown a test stimulus for different amounts of time and asked to guess how long it lasted.
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