Being spontaneous can help to keep your brain healthy as you age too. “When we’re doing something new and novel, our brain has to be as fully present as possible,” says Katina Bajaj, a ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a loop of negative thinking, replaying past mistakes, dwelling on regrets, or obsessively worrying about the future in a doomsday way? Conversely, has your ...

When psychologist Jonathan Smallwood set out to study mind-wandering about 25 years ago, few of his peers thought that was a very good idea. How could one hope to investigate these spontaneous and ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can ...