Donna Rose Addis's guest appearances

Donna Rose Addis

Rob Hopkins

Bill Kelly Show

Elon Musk

Barack Obama

Bill Gates

Tom Cooper

Kamala Harris

Bill Barr

Justin Bieber

Jim Acosta

Donald Trump

Michelle Obama

Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders

Charles Eisenstein

Matthew Green

Michael Mann

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Bill Kelly

Daydreaming is a natural state of the human brain. It is a byproduct of our “default mode network,” which allows us to produce imagery and simulation that is separate from the reality in front of us. For many, it’s a state that allows us to freely imagine our future and channel our creativity without restrictions. But the monotony of life under COVID-19 has halted many of our daydreams, and in some ways, changed and restricted what we fantasize about entirely as we struggle to envision our lives during and after the virus. Researchers have begun to look at how this area of our subconscious has been changed by the pandemic, and interestingly, where our brain’s default mode has sought refuge and comfort as we began to cope with our new reality. GUEST: Dr. Donna Rose Addis, Senior Scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute, Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Daydreaming is a natural state of the human brain. It is a byproduct of our “default mode network,” which allows us to produce imagery and simulation that is separate from the reality in front of us. For many, it’s a state that allows us to freely imagine our future and channel our creativity without restrictions. But the monotony of life under COVID-19 has halted many of our daydreams, and in some ways, changed and restricted what we fantasize about entirely as we struggle to envision our lives during and after the virus. Researchers have begun to look at how this area of our subconscious has been changed by the pandemic, and interestingly, where our brain’s default mode has sought refuge and comfort as we began to cope with our new reality. GUEST: Dr. Donna Rose Addis, Senior Scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute, Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

How the pandemic has affected our ability to Daydream, Dr. Donna Rose Addis joined the Bill Kelly Show

As the research stage of the book I am writing on imagination wraps up, it was a real treat recently to chat to Donna Rose Addis, a Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Auckland. One of the areas I’ve been researching, as a complete novice to neuroscience, has been what happens in our brains when we imagine.  I had read several papers she had written about the similarities between imagination and memory, our abilities to recall the past, and to imagine the future.

Donna Rose Addis on the hippocampus, the future and brain networks