{"id":1821,"date":"2017-03-28T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:05:28","slug":"brain-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/brain-wandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Wandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_95637452_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1825 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_95637452_Credit-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_95637452_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_95637452_Credit-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_95637452_Credit-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve posted quite frequently about mind-wandering on this blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/drifting-away-the-cognitive-benefits-and-perils-of-mind-wandering\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/mind-wandering-and-the-default-mode-network\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/a-skeptic-meditates\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; to pick just a few). This post introduces a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonlieffmd.com\/blog\/the-science-of-mind-wandering\">comprehensive article<\/a> about the brain activity that correlates with various mind-wandering states.<\/p>\n<p>As John Leiff (M.D.) notes, when you just lie still and think about nothing in particular, your brain isn&#8217;t quiet; a well-defined set of neural networks is firing. This group is called the Default Mode Network (DMN, or DN), and it has gotten a lot of research love in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Lieff&#8217;s article explores &#8212; in detail &#8212; the relationships between different parts of the DN and different kinds of mind-wandering and meditation.<\/p>\n<p>This comprehensive review doesn&#8217;t offer any immediate teaching implications. However &#8212; and this is a big however &#8212; if you&#8217;re interested in mindfulness, and want to use brain research to make you case to your admin team, you will benefit from knowing the information that Lieff offers you here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted quite frequently about mind-wandering on this blog (here, here, and here\u00a0&#8212; to pick just a few). This post introduces a comprehensive article about the brain activity that correlates with various mind-wandering states. As John Leiff (M.D.) notes, when you just lie still and think about nothing in particular, your brain isn&#8217;t quiet; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-mind-wandering","tag-mindfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}