1. Relax to the max.
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Drew, Liam
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COGNITIVE psychology , *PREFRONTAL cortex , *CONTROL (Psychology) , *LONG-term memory , *DEFAULT mode network , *COGNITIVE neuroscience - Abstract
What's more, when researchers looked carefully at the brain's electrical activity during waking rest, they found most of the patterns sleep researchers had linked to memory consolidation. In the past, researchers had preferred to study the body or brain engaging in active tasks rather than in difficult-to-define downtime. Wamsley saw that by comparing slumbering brains only with active, awake brains, sleep researchers had missed a vital in-between state of conscious restfulness. Your offline brain She suggests there may be two main waking brain states, one "online" in which the brain attends to incoming sensory information, and one "offline" where internal processes dominate the brain's activities. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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