Mindwandering – with Moshe Bar

Do you often find your mind wandering? Did you know that mindwandering can actually stimulate creativity, increase focus and boost your mood? Watch Moshe's Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr7lJOrjWc

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Our brains are inherently noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter. This is mindwandering.

Join internationally renowned neuroscientist Moshe Bar as he presents revelatory and exciting new research that highlights how mindwandering actually plays a vital role in solving problems and inducing happiness.

Moshe Bar is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist. His novel research has made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of perception, cognition and issues in psychiatry. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. Moshe Bar currently lives in Israel where he heads the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.

This livestream was recorded at the Royal Institution on 24 February 2022.

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