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The researchers looked at the activity of three different networks in the brain: the default-mode network, used when one's brain is idle; the executive-control network, which is involved in making decisions; and the salience network, which is involved in deciding something is more important than something else.
If you sit at home with nothing to do, your booze brain will pester you for a drink and it will be very difficult to make it stop because your human brain is idle.
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The researchers focused on a "default" network of brain regions that are active when the brain is just idling, not working on any particular task (ScienceNOW, 18 January).
A tone-sensitive brain that's idle and dying for something creative to do could turn the down-up-down-up da-DA-da-DA whine of a police siren into the comfortable path carved out by the tonally similar theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" or the theme song from that dreaded "Jeopardy!" All it really takes to hook into a musical thought is a bored unconscious mind and some external trigger.
* No speculation is idle.
Golden West is idle Saturday.
Brethren Christian is idle this week.
When the brain is left to idle, it usually starts working again.
While you may consider yourself being idle spacing out, not focusing on any one thing your brain is never truly idle.
Despite being blind and deaf to new information, however, the sleeping brain is far from idle: it mulls over the day's experiences, sending memories from the hippocampus – where memories are first thought to form – to regions across the cortex, where they are held in long-term storage.
The resting brain is anything but idle -- that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek's noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled eggs, oatmeal and fresh fruit.
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