Recent scientific studies have shed light on why our brains tend to “zone out” when we’re exhausted, linking this phenomenon to specific neural lapses in attention. These studies have used brain scans ...

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New research finds you’re more likely to zone out when you’re tired. Scientists tracked exactly what happens in the brain during these attention lapses. The finding suggest this is a way for the brain ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...