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The more times we have walked a route, the longer we judge it to be, a UK researcher has confirmed. His (36) could help explain why daily (37) can grow to seem interminably long. Neuroscientists have long known that our brains are poor at estimating a set (38) such as a kilometre. But most studies of this (39) have been carried out in simple artificial (40) where, for example, people walk along paths taped out in a gymnasium. Andrew Crompton at Manchester University, UK, wanted to see how good we are at (41) distances in the real world. He asked 140 (42) students in their first, second and third years of study to (43) the distance from the university’s student-union building to familiar destinations along a straight road, (44) . (45) . First year students, for example, estimated a mile-long path to be around 1.24 miles on average, while third year students stretched it to 1.45 miles. Crompton published his results in Environment and Behavior. (46) ."It seems to fit in with an emerging theme," says a professor who has carried out such experiments at his university in Canada.