WASHINGTON, D.C.: A new app just released by CU Boulder could help researchers understand how the brain works and what role negative and positive thoughts have on brain function.
The app is called “Where’s My Mind?” It’s free to anyone who wants to participate and has an Android smart phone. The goal of the app is to study responses taken randomly four times a day to a series of questions. Those questions determine whether someone was actively thinking about the future, or just drifting, whether their thoughts were negative or positive and where the thoughts were happening among other random questions.
“Surprisingly little is known about our inner mental lives, and by that I mean our thoughts, our emotions, and the feelings that really make us unique as human beings,” said Jessica Andrews-Hanna, research scientist for the CU Boulder Institute of Cognitive Science. “It allows people to kind of track, over days and weeks, what they’re thinking about and kind of record that in this app.”