Tag: Mental states
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Presence of Mind
You parked your car. Come out of the store. Do you remember where it was? Chances are you do if you were focused on that when it occurred and weren’t either distracted by something else or not focused at all. This is a basic lesson that could be taught to all people who forget things.…
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States
The first mental state is the Default Mode Network. This symmetric anatomic brain area found on brain metabolic studies such as fMRI and PET outlined by Marcus Raichle et al 2001. Their human subjects were scanned, eyes closed, generally thinking of nothing. When I first came upon this description I thought, that is exactly the…