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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

What Your Brain Is Doing While You Nap


Like to take naps? There's new research suggesting what brains are up to while their owners are snoozing.

The right side of the brain goes into overdrive while napping compared to its neighboring left hemisphere.

The team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center who made these findingsspeculate the brain is doing helpful housekeeping working to consolidate memories or classify data. Or they say, maybe the right brain is just daydreaming.

1 comment:

lmclain said...

Despite unbelievable advances in computer science, with computers able to do trillions of operations PER SECOND, we are still bumbling around when compared to the human brain. I think we are, at best, guessing and assuming when it comes to what the brain is doing and how it does it. God is just laughing at our attempts....