Mundane tasks: Our analytical brain is slower on Monday, so Mondays are best for the more mundane tasks.
Even Danny Boyle's wonderful pageant of decline and whimsy and creative nostalgia at London 2012 was basically a lot of things going on for a long time before some sport was allowed to happen, albeit redeemed on that occasion by the genuinely rare achievement of not being brain-achingly mundane, facile, or clogged with schmaltz.
"From the point of view of the science-fiction writers, this is the mundane aspect of constructing a global brain," said Richard F. Rashid, the head of research at Microsoft.
Subjects' brains were scanned while they carried out mundane tasks involving pushing flashing buttons and the following was found by researchers, Unexpectedly, before volunteers made errors, their brains started displaying abnormal behavior … up to a half-minute beforehand.
In a new study, the Stony Brook scientists will have couples playing either a mundane or exciting video game together while their brains are being scanned.
The mundane routine can find a comfortable spot in your brain, too.
The mundane, repetitive gesture, she told me later, kept her brain on the loop that she was making with her big plastic needles, away from all the sadness in her heart.
It is the first evidence that a passing glimpse of mundane--but potentially useful--tools can seize the brain's attention as dramatically as flashing lights and sudden motion.
But the guns were useless when he was lured outside and taken into custody without a shot being fired, a surprisingly mundane ending for a man accused of blowing other people's brains out (and being able to nap afterward).
For example, [T]hey said I had kind of an ADD process where, you know, when I'm concentrating, especially on, you know, something that's relatively mundane, there's a decrease of function in the front part of my brain, so that it lends itself to having more difficulty with staying on task with boring things (C014).
