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A *real* news item below seems to be relevant both to Vadim's
affliction in LaTH and to Van Veen's professional studies.
Victor Fet
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Although we can't technically travel through time (yet), when we think
of the past or the future we engage in a sort of mental time travel.
This uniquely human ability to psychologically travel through time
arguably sets us apart from other species. Researchers have recently
looked at how mental time travel is represented in the sensorimotor
systems that regulate human movement. It turns out our perceptions of
space and time are tightly coupled.
University of Aberdeen psychological scientists Lynden Miles, Louise
Nind and Neil Macrae conducted a study to measure this in the lab. They
fitted participants with a motion sensor while they imagined either
future or past events. The researchers found that thinking about past
or future events can literally move us: Engaging in mental time travel
(a.k.a. chronesthesia) resulted in physical movements corresponding to
the metaphorical direction of time. Those who thought of the past
swayed backward while those who thought of the future moved forward.
These findings reported online in Psychological Science, a journal of
the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that chronesthesia
may be grounded in processes that link spatial and temporal metaphors
(e.g., future= forward, past= backward) to our systems of perception
and action. "The embodiment of time and space yields an overt
behavioral marker of an otherwise invisible mental operation," explains
Miles and colleagues.
Provided by Association for Psychological Science
http://www.physorg.com/news183297421.html