Research Hit: Your Brain on Daydreaming
New research identifies the brain patterns of day dreaming
Oh, now this is interesting, I’m very good at drifting off task and daydreaming!
Me too, in fact, I consider it one of my core competencies!
Isn’t it true that daydreamers are more creative?
Well, as far as I know, research does point to connections between mind wandering and novel idea generation. But that wasn’t the focus of this research I would like to report on today.
A shame - what was the focus?
The focus of Takamitsu Iwata et al. of the University of Osaka in Japan was to identify patterns in the brain while mind wandering, daydreaming that is.
And what did they find?
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