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Alcohol tweaks mind wandering in a particularly interesting way, as Schooler and his colleagues report in a new paper entitled “Lost in the Sauce,” published in Psychological Science.
Who doesn’t want to write a serious, scientific paper called “Lost in the Sauce”? Ha!
That particular quote comes from an article on DISCOVER Magazine online, but the link for this comes from Lloyd Morgan’s wonderfully curated Lone Gunman: In Search of the Infogasm. Another choice quote, this time from the linked WSJ article:
In addition, they found that tell-tale burst of gamma waves was almost always preceded by a change in alpha brain-wave intensity in the visual cortex, which controls what we see. They took it as evidence that the brain was dampening the neurons there similar to the way we consciously close our eyes to concentrate. “You want to quiet the noise in your head to solidify that fragile germ of an idea,” says Dr. Jung-Beeman at Northwestern.
Fragile germ of an idea! Love it!
