A new study reveals that when your mind goes blank, your brain isn’t idle but enters a "local sleep" state, showing sleep-like waves and reduced complexity. Researchers found that mind blanking ...

Advert But it turns out the science behind it is surprising, as a new study has shed some light on what could be going on in the brain. As it turns out, some of us experience this 'mind blank' ...

Sydney, Apr 25 (UNI) A new study by Australian and European neuroscientists and philosophers revealed what happens in the brain when minds go blank, a common yet poorly understood mental state. The ...

If you have a brain fart and your mind goes completely blank every once in a while, you’re not broken or unusual. Your brain is likely just taking a momentary mini-vacation, entering a distinct neural ...

Meaning that, “when the brain is in a high- or low-arousal state, a mind blank is more likely to occur.” In experiments with healthy volunteers, the brain shows signs of “deactivation” and ...

But other cases were quite the opposite. In some people, a sudden spike in neural activity in the brain’s posterior regions preceded a blank. The authors believe that high-speed thinking might ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...

Scientists Wednesday unveiled a functional 3-D map of the 84,000 neurons in a cubic millimeter of a mouse's brain, along with more than three miles of microscopic wiring — axons and smaller ...