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27 Jan 2017

Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says @ Open Culture

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    Title: Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says @ Open Culture
    Link: http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/why-time-seems-to-speed-up-as-we-get-older-what-the-research-says.html

    “our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period. In other words, the more new memories we build on a weekend getaway, the longer that trip will seem in hindsight"