New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that mind-wandering — those moments where our attention drifts away from a task at ...

Your ‘annoying’ habits and personality quirks might be superpowers in disguise. Here’s how you can harness them.

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble ...

Mind wandering is an intriguing phenomenon—the average person spends up to 50% of their waking hours in this semi-dreamlike state. While it is notorious for undermining performance on tasks requiring ...

Researchers at Sorbonne University in Paris found what might actually be happening in people's brains when our minds go blank ...

Do you ever feel spacey, distracted and worn down toward the end of a long work-related task – especially if that task is entirely a mental one? For over a century, psychologists have been trying to ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (March 11, 2024) – The longer a person spends on a task, the more their mind starts to wander—regardless of whether the activity is difficult or easy. In fact, toward the end of the ...

Mind-wandering forms part of our daily thinking time and refers to the phenomenon of our mind drifting away from a task we are doing (e.g. reading a book) and having unrelated thoughts. Performance on ...

Researchers have found that a specific pattern of brain activity, known as 'sharp-wave ripples,' is associated with thoughts that wander from the present situation. This activity begins in the ...

When your teacher told you to stop daydreaming and pay attention, she might actually have helped improve your mood as well as your school performance — if the findings of a new study on mind wandering ...