Date: May 12, 2014
"For a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they imaged the brains of meditators while they went through four basic mental movements: focusing on a chosen target, noticing that their minds had wandered, bringing their minds back to the target, and sustaining their focus there."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: August, 2014
"A universe of information swirled around in his brain."
preview | full record— Thomas, Matthew
Date: May 18, 2015
"He told me that, while many people find that walking or jogging shakes ideas loose from the subconscious, he needs to quell all physical activity."
preview | full record— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
Date: June 12, 2015
"I have a short attention span generally, so I did everything I could to promote a wandering mind."
preview | full record— Heritage, Stuart
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Partial images slide through my mind, a scattering of words spoken. Neurobiologists say that memory isn’t the replay of a video camera, but instead a pastiche of neuronal fragments gathered from here and there, wandering smells, oddly cut visual scraps, translucent experiences laid on top of one...
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Some philosophers claim that we know nothing of the external world outside our minds--nothing compared to what sways in our minds, in the long, twisting corridors of memory, the vast mental rooms with half-open doors, the ghosts chattering beneath the chandeliers of imagination."
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: May 18, 2015
"'I have to be totally still.' Ideas come floating up 'like a bubble in liquid.' At that point, he goes into an excitable motor state, pacing or scribbling down ideas."
preview | full record— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
Date: February 1, 2016
"I read for hours that way, morning after morning, my mind awhirl."
preview | full record— Bissell, Tom (b. 1974)
Date: July 27, 2016
"But, gradually, I found myself caught up in the flow of the thing, gliding in my mind around every bend in the river, riding a raft with someone who knows where all the snags and sunken rocks of public life are."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: June 30, 2017
"Research explains why forgetting delivers this memory boost. Memories don't fly out of our brains like sparrows from a barn."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich