Tag: Attention

  • The Preferred State

    If I told you,  you’d rather be in a state of blank mindlessness as opposed to full awareness, you would object. But that’s the case and I’ll prove it.  You may not know that there are two separate types of waking, mindfulness and mindlessness.  That was brought to light by Marcus Raichle using modern brain…

  • Vision and Flickering States

    As soon as you open your eyes, the regions of activity in the default mode network begin to decrease activity. Well, that’s exactly what happens to alpha activity on the EEG. We say alpha attenuates, which means decreases amplitude. At the same time this network turns off. Should you begin working on a task, say…