Amazing Fact Of Walking

You might have assumed it was just a turn of phrase or a funny expression. But researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have discovered that it’s not just something we say: people really do literally wander in circles when there are no visual clues to keep them on track.


Everyone has heard an allusion to the common belief that people “walk around in circles” when they’re lost.

he behavior has been observed in other animals before, but until recently it hadn’t been studied in humans. So when a German television viewer asked a popular-science program to uncover the mystery behind this common belief, psychologist Jan Souman tested it out.