The dreaded blank page. It's a familiar scene for anyone who's ever tried to write an essay. The ideas are swirling, but organizing them can feel like untangling a bowl of spaghetti. Two ...

Mind blank frequency varies greatly between different people, but a person experiences the phenomenon about 5%–20% of the time on average.

The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake. Instead, there are moments ...

Your mind really can go blank. Here's what happens in your brain According to a new review, mind blanking is a distinct conscious state in which our minds go 'nowhere' because they seem devoid of ...

As difficult as mind blanking is to define, it’s also difficult to study. Setting out to review what researchers have revealed about mind blanking so far, the authors of the new Trends in Cognitive ...