Scientists Uncover Why Time Slows During Challenging Tasks
Originally Published 6 months ago — by Earth.com
Research shows that during intense exercise, people perceive time as passing more slowly due to sensory overload and neural activity in brain regions involved in timing and movement, but this illusion quickly dissipates after stopping exercise. Understanding this distortion can help athletes better calibrate effort and pacing, emphasizing the importance of external cues like distance markers or timers over internal sense of time.