If a teenager always does not have time — to pack a briefcase in time, make a bed or change clothes, then this is not necessarily because he is lazy or does not want to do this.
Psychologists at the Institute of Child Health and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UK) have identified one of the possible reasons for this behavior: the fact is that children and adolescents have a poor idea of how long their actions take. The researchers asked people of different ages to perform certain movements with their hands, and then do the same mentally, in their imagination. It turned out that in children (unlike adults), real time and “scrolled” time in the imagination are almost not connected. Scientists explain this result by the late maturation of the parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for the internal image of movements and is fully formed only after 20 years.