Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
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Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
this other connectome is called the default mode network (DMN). The DMN allows for expansive, imaginative, and creative thinking. The back half of the DMN—called the posterior cingulate—facilitates your autobiographic memory, your personal history. This allows you to think back, draw upon, and pick apart the past. The front part, the medial
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