EVER glanced at a clock and felt like the second hand takes longer than
normal to move? Now we know why.
According to Kielan Yarrow and his colleagues at the Institute of Neurology
in London, the phenomenon happens because our brains fool us into thinking we
have been looking at the second hand since just before our eyes moved to look at
the clock. So we think we’ve been looking at it for longer than we actually
have. This happens any time we move our eyes, Yarrow says, but is only
noticeable when we look at something that shows the…
