Neuroscience: Idle minds (2012)

Neuroscience: Idle minds (2012)nature.com/news/neuroscie...

afturkrull · 5 years ago

"Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all."

Because it's busy maintain a 3D model of it's surrounding environment. When the brain is deprived of such stimulus, in sleep, it is provided through dreams.

johnsmith4739 · 5 years ago

The conclusion is as moronic as the rest of the article. Every single organ in the body "truly rests" only when dead.

wombatmobile · 5 years ago

How do they distinguish between resting state and non-resting state?

In monkeys?

neatze · 5 years ago

Electroencephalography (EEG) records different brain waves based on brain alertness state.

wombatmobile · 5 years ago

That sounds backwards. Isn't the experiment supposed to measure the brain state of a resting mind, and then measure the brain state of an engaged mind, and compare the results?

Otherwise it's a truism.