Health
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…
-
Noosa News17 hours agoMan charged over allegedly abandoning Arnie the German shepherd in car after claiming dog and vehicle were stolen
-
Noosa News18 hours agoMotorcyclist dies in crash with truck
-
Noosa News19 hours agoSomerville House investigating after teachers’ dossier on students leaked
-
General24 hours agoSmall-town cleaner finds himself in legal battle with EnduroShield over product packaging