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Here’s why time flies when you’re having fun (and drags when you’re bored), scientists reveal – Yahoo New Zealand News
Our brain cells become “worn out” from certain tasks, skewing our sense of time.
Time flies when youre having fun, as the old saying goes, and now scientists have worked out why and why time crawls when youre bored.
It turns out that our brain cells become worn out from certain tasks, skewing our sense of time.
Neurons in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG), which process touch and speech, become fatigued when exposed to the same thing again and again, over a long period.
This affects peoples sense of time, researchers discovered in tests where volunteers performed tasks on a c…
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