2009年7月9日星期四

头脑迷思之二——弯曲的时间之箭

Everything is connected to time, that's why I am particularly interested in topic related to time.

Today's source "Bending Time's Arrow" is coming from "We're Only Human" which hosted by Wray Herbert, a writer for Newsweek and Scientific American, a former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.

Here's the gist from this post:

When you seeing/drawing a timeline, why do we accept without question that left equals early while right equals late, far off in time? More fundamentally, why do we entwine time and space?

Psychologists suspect that the brain has wired our perceptions of space and time together for some reason.

Psychologist Francesca Frassinetti of the University of Bologna and her colleagues designed an experiment to explore space-time continuum.The results were reported in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, it shows when shifting the brain’s focus to the right, time is perceived as expanded in their minds, While shifting the brain’s focus to the left compressed time.

Interesting, Hmm?

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