The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
remarkable. As you become tired, your attention will indeed blink out, for a simple reason.
Using functional magnetic imaging, which measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, researchers at Stanford University monitored the brains of patients under hypnosis and observed several distinct phenomena. First, a decrease in activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate, part of the brain’s salience network, was evident. The reason
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