Title:
Discovery of “Thought Worms” Opens Window to the Mind
By:
Queen's University
Published:
Neuroscience News, 14 July 2020
https://neurosciencenews.com/thought-worms-16639/
Summary:
Researchers have discovered a brain-based marker for new thoughts, reporting people experience more than 6,000 thoughts per day. The study reports a new method that can detect indirectly when one thought ends and another begins.
From the article:
Researchers at Queen’s University have established a method that, for the first time, can detect indirectly when one thought ends and another begins. Dr. Jordan Poppenk (Psychology) and his master’s student, Julie Tseng, devised a way to isolate “thought worms,” consisting of consecutive moments when a person is focused on the same idea. This research was recently published in Nature Communications.