Contemporary · Neuroscience & Biology · Paper

The Default Mode Network

Marcus Raichle · 2001

"The brain doesn't go idle at rest — a specific network becomes more active the moment you stop focusing on a task, and it burns a disproportionate share of the brain's total energy doing it."

The idea

Raichle kept seeing the same brain regions go quiet exactly when a task started, scan after scan. In 2001 he named what they were doing instead: the brain's default mode.

Why it works

The takeaway — recall it first

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