In what was considered as another astonishing breakthrough in the field of scientific researches, a experiment suggest that the common belief that people tend to walk in circles when lost is really true and not just a product of horror movie plots.
Jan Souman, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany together with the producers and research team assembled by the German science television show "Kopfball" conducted an
two experiment, first was in the Sahara dessert and the other was at a forest in Germany.
They blindfolded the volunteers and outfitted them with GPS receivers, asking them to walk straight across a large field. Most volunteers circled here and there, walking in circles as small as 20 meters in diameter.
Souman, who also studied human perception and other behavioral sciences, assured that most subjects showed no strong bias for leftward or rightward turns. He cited that the "walking in circles" phenom is a result of the brains limited information -- exhibited by people who are lost and has no sense of direction.
Souman also added the inference of other external factors such as accumulation of noise in the sensorimotor system and the visibility of the sun.
