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Your wandering mind is a ‘feature,’ not a bug – Futurity: Research News
Researchers have a way to show whether our minds are focused, fixated, or wandering. They’ve found that a wandering mind might actually be helpful, too.
Researchers have come up with a way to track the flow of our internal thought processes and signal whether our minds are focused, fixated, or wandering.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to measure brain activity while people performed mundane attention tasks, researchers identified brain signals that reveal when the mind is not focused on the task at hand or aimlessly wandering, especially after concentrating on an assignment.
Specifically, increased alpha brain waves were detected in the prefrontal…
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