It was a phylogeny of butterflies—an evolutionary family tree—and it contained many blank spaces ... the seed of the project in Kawahara’s mind: “One of our last conversations was ...

The Leaving Cert class of 2025 return to school this week for a short final term in secondary school. With just over five ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts ...

Fresh research published in ‘Trends in Cognitive Sciences’ has revealed that mind blanking isn’t just a mental hiccup, but a ...

As they describe it, this means that when the brain is in a high- or low-arousal state, a mind blank is more likely to occur. “The experience of a 'blank mind' is as intimate and direct as that ...

There’s a lot that goes on inside our brains. But there are times that our minds go… well… what’s the word? Blank? Reviewing available research on mind ...

Takeaways from their research include: Mind blank frequency varies greatly between different people, but a person experiences the phenomenon about 5%–20% of the time on average. Common ...

“When he thinks about his kids…I cannot help but see ‘barrel’ as a leak… The linguistic association between oil, tanks, and barrels I think permeated into his mind and then leaked out of ...

Mind blanking, when the mind temporarily goes blank, is a distinct, common mental state influenced by attention, arousal, and brain activity patterns. Mind blanking is a common but poorly defined ...