You know that feeling when your mind goes blank? One minute you’re happily getting on with something; the next, it’s like all the thoughts have just fallen out of your head. A new study is ...

1. Mind Mirror Concept Think of your mind map as a mirror reflecting your current understanding of a subject. The goal is to make this reflection as clear and complete as possible. To do this: ...

Takeaways from their research include: Mind blank frequency varies greatly between different people, but a person experiences the phenomenon about 5%–20% of the time on average.

Mind blanking is a common, daily life phenomenon linked to changes in states of arousal, the researchers report, and tends to occur towards the end of long and demanding attention tasks like exams, ...

Biology Brains Scans Reveal What Really Happens When Your Mind Goes Blank Scientists argue that blanking out is its own state of consciousness, distinct from having your mind wander off.

Your mind really can go blank. Here's what happens in your brain According to a new review, mind blanking is a distinct conscious state in which our minds go 'nowhere' because they seem devoid of ...

As difficult as mind blanking is to define, it’s also difficult to study. Setting out to review what researchers have revealed about mind blanking so far, the authors of the new Trends in Cognitive ...