Pure Science: Do you wonder what causes your mind to blank out or wander? It’s ’local sleep-like activity’

We know that slower brainwaves — normally associated with lowered mental activity, relaxation and sleep — can affect our daily behaviour, cause us to make errors and lose focus on tasks. Now, new research shows that the location of these waves can predict loss of attention, quantify the kind of consequences it will have, and also distinguish between 'mind wandering' and 'mind blanking'. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings and their implications.

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What causes our mind to blank out or wander? It’s the ‘local sleep’ in brains, study suggests https://theprint.in/science/what-causes-our-mind-to-blank-out-or-wander-its-the-local-sleep-in-brains-study-suggests/687838/----more----Twitter summary by author of the paper https://twitter.com/thandrillon/status/1409906689655070722----more----Predicting lapses of attention with sleep-like slow waves https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23890-7#ref-CR30