An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
K Wiebelspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
the DMN is where attention and imagination meet.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow explains in his book Elastic that ‘as our DMNs are sidelined more and more, we have less unfocused time for our extended internal dialogue to proceed. As a result, we have diminished opportunities to string together those random associations that lead to new ideas and realisations.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow explains in his book Elastic that ‘as our DMNs are sidelined more and more, we have less unfocused time for our extended internal dialogue to proceed. As a result, we have diminished opportunities to string together those random associations that lead to new ideas and realisations.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The frontal cortex actually makes neural firing patterns that represent its own representations. In other words, it allows us to think about thinking.