On any given day, your thoughts leap from one subject to another — your grocery list, a deadline, a song stuck in your head.

Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling 'drowsy' to 'a complete absence of conscious awareness.' Neuroscientists and philosophers compile what we ...

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“It remains unclear what these blanks represent, highlighting the definitional and phenomenological ambiguities surrounding mind blanking.” ‘Ever feel like your brain just goes silen ...

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 ...

"We sought to better understand mind blanking by parsing through 80 relevant research articles—including some of our own in which we recorded participants' brain activity when they were ...