If your mind goes blank occasionally, you're not unusual, your brain is entering a neural state scientists are just starting to understand. Pfizer's CEO said the company could make 'tremendous ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Brain scans revealed that before a mind blank, specific patterns appear in the frontal, temporal, and visual brain regions. The study found that during the blanking state, especially after ...

“The experience of a ‘blank mind’ is as intimate and direct as that of bearing thoughts,” said co-author Jennifer Windt, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Australia. “Our aim here is to start a ...

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 ...

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 ...