Pourquoi le voyage de retour semble toujours plus rapide (et ce n'est pas dû à être plus familier avec l'itinéraire) By Graham Smith Updated: 11:28 GMT, 31 August 2011 Most people returning from holiday feel that the journey home passes by much quicker than the outward leg.
Even though both distances and journey are usually the same, the way back still seems shorter. Scientists believe this 'return trip effect' is not caused by being more familiar with the route on a return journey, as previously thought, but because of different expectations. Are we nearly there yet? Scientists believe the 'return trip effect' is not caused by being more familiar with the route on a return journey, but because of different expectations Lead researcher Niels van de Ven, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, said: 'People often underestimate how long the outward journey takes and this is therefore experienced as long. 'Based on that feeling, the traveller expects the return journey to be long as well, and this then turns out to be shorter than expected.' 'You do not need to recognise a route to experience the effect.'
What Babies Know and We Don't - The New York Review of Books. The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pp., $25.00 The most elusive period of our lives occurs from birth to about the age of five.
Mysterious and otherworldly, infancy and early childhood are surrounded later in life by a curious amnesia, broken by flashes of memory that come upon us unbidden, for the most part, with no coherent or reliable context. With their sensorial, almost cellular evocations, these memories seem to reside more in the body than the mind; yet they are central to our sense of who we are to ourselves. Part of the appeal of psychoanalysis may be that, in its quest to locate the faded child in the adult, it turns the adult into a kind of child at a play date with his analyst. “Children and adults are different forms of Homo sapiens,” writes Gopnik in The Philosophical Baby, a tour through the recent findings of cognitive science about the minds of young children. Plants 'can think and remember' 14 July 2010Last updated at 12:20 By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News The scientists discovered the "nervous systems" of Arabidopsis plants Plants are able to "remember" and "react" to information contained in light, according to researchers.
Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These "electro-chemical signals" are carried by cells that act as "nerves" of the plants. The researchers used fluorescence imaging to watch the plants respond In their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond. And the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.
This showed, they said, that the plant "remembered" the information encoded in light. He presented the findings at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. Thinking plants.
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