You know that feeling when your mind goes blank? One minute you’re happily getting on with something; the next, it’s like all the thoughts have just fallen out of your head. A new study is ...

and cognition that occur as our minds blank out. “We sought to better understand mind blanking by parsing through 80 relevant research articles — including some of our own in which we recorded ...

Researchers have developed a 3D-printable electrode that looks like a single strand of human hair and measures brain activity more reliably than the current method used to diagnose things like ...

In fact, evidence from electroencephalography (EEG) suggests that while the person remains awake during a mind blank, their brain might be going into what’s been called a “local sleep” state.

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“There’s a lot of technical terms, medical terms, brain diagrams. I’m like, ‘Just tell me what I need.’” Other parents were more practiced. A woman in her 60s from Laguna Beach told me ...

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 ...

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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, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A new study by Australian and European neuroscientists and philosophers revealed what's happening in the brain when minds go blank, a common yet poorly understood mental ...