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AFP – Daydreaming during a meeting is commonly seen as a signal of disinterest. However, according to American research, letting our minds wander may actually trigger the formation of fresh neural networks in our brains. This potential outcome might enhance our ability to absorb information more effectively. The researchers, whose findings are published in the […]

Randy Buckner, the Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University, has shown that brain activity in the visual cortex increases

Furthermore, activity patterns during a mouse's first few daydreams of the day indicated how the brain's response to the image would develop over time.The

Daydreaming may sound like a waste of time for some people, but experts say it may contribute to learning and memory.

Daydreaming is looking less like a vice and more like a virtue the more that neuroscientists and psychologists dig into the phenomenon.

Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain. During quiet waking, brain activity in mice suggests the animals are daydreaming about a recent image. Having daydreams about a recently viewed image predicted how the brain would respond to the image in the future. T

Interested? Step one: Put down the smartphone.

The authors of a study suggest that daydreaming could have an important role to play in learning and memory.

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