What to know: A new study from Queen’s University in Canada suggests the average person has more than 6,000 individual thoughts every day.
Scientists made the discovery by having subjects watch movies to identify when one thought ends and another begins. More specifically, the researchers identified “thought worms” — moments where a person is focused on a specific idea.
The way this was done is groundbreaking, as scientists previously needed a template to identify each thought. The study was recently published in Nature Communications.
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