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Daydreaming is brain's default setting
POSTED: 9:18 p.m. EST, January 19, 2007 CNN.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Daydreaming seems to be the default setting of the human mind and certain brain regions are devoted to it, U.S. researchers reported Friday. When people are given a specific task to do, they focus on that task but then other brain regions get busy during down time. "There is this network of regions that always seems to be active when you don't give people something to do," psychologist Malia Mason of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital said in a telephone interview.

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