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A group of researchers scanned the brains of 24 participants. By iStock Story at a glance When you are distracted or simply not thinking about the outside world, a network in the brain — the default mode network — becomes active. Participants of an experiment were told to think about future events while laying in an MRI machine. Researchers saw that two subnetworks were active with what they think are two different functions of construction and evaluat...

Two sub-networks are at work in the brain when we imagine the future: one focused on creating the new event and another on evaluating whether that event is positive or negative, according to new research In quiet moments, the brain likes to wander—to the events of tomorrow, an unpaid bill, an upcoming vacation. Despite little external stimulation in these instances, a part of the brain called the default mode network (DMN) is hard at work. “These regions seem to be active when people aren�...

COVID-19 and Decision-Making In this Penn Science Cafe discussion, presented by the School of Arts & Sciences, Joseph Kable, a professor of psychology, and Barbara Mellers, a professor in psychology and marketing, discuss the processes underlying the choices we make during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit sas.upenn.edu. Monday, April 19, 2021