Escape From the Insipid
Jan 22nd, 2007 at 8:13 am by PSoTD
Cool. Daydreaming may be our brain’s default setting.
Researchers at Dartmouth College may have the answer. They found that a default network of regions in the brain’s cortex—a grouping known to be active when the mind is completely unoccupied—is firing away as a person is engaged in routine activities.
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Jonathan Schooler, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, says that Mason’s study illustrates that daydreaming is really the default state of the brain.
I have a new excuse now for when I haven’t been paying attention - I was in default mode.
