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
The DMN is a filter for what you think is beautiful or not beautiful, memorable or not, meaningful or not, and it’s what helps to make the arts and aesthetics a very personal experience for each of us.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
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The writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow explains in his book Elastic that ‘as our DMNs are sidelined more and more, we have less unfocused time for our extended internal dialogue to proceed. As a result, we have diminished opportunities to string together those random associations that lead to new ideas and realisations.’