Tagged: meditation

The Roundtable
11:50 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Listener Essay - The Retreat

   Dan New is a combat Vietnam Veteran and an artist who loves to write and photograph as expression of his life.

Science & Technology
12:20 pm
Thu July 26, 2012

Researchers Say Daydreaming Aids High Function Brain Activity

A recently released study says that daydreaming may actually be beneficial to high-level brain activity. WAMC’s Melissa Bunning reports.…

Contrary to popular belief, our brains are functioning at higher levels when our minds wander.  Dr. Jonathan Schooler of the University of California, Santa Barbara, explains……

Schooler, and Kalina Christoff of the University of British Columbia, took functional magnetic resonance images, or fMRI scans, of subjects as they were instructed to press a button when numbers appeared on a screen.

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