A person’s brain performs an intricate juggling act while watching a movie, a new study demonstrates.
A person's brain performs an intricate juggling act while watching a movie, a new study demonstrates.
The brain's “executive control” networks -- regions related to planning, solving problems and prioritizing information -- tend to kick in when a movie's content is more difficult to follow or ambiguous. But during more easily understandable scenes, the brain hands off processing to regions with specialized functions.
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