Hearing noise and moving our body helps us gauge the passing of time

Moving your body while listening to sounds may help you more accurately perceive the passing of time during a particular event. Past research suggests that this finding could help to improve treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's disease, which often affects a person's motor function and the timing of their movements. Improved accuracy to our perception of time may help doctors to assess the effectiveness of interventions that aim to ease these symptoms. When an event occurs, the body has various means of measuring how long it lasted. For example, moving our body can help to improve our accuracy when counting the length of auditory tones.