Does Thinking Burn Calories?

Does thinking burn calories? I’ve often wondered about that, and today I came across a Q&A article in New Scientist on that very topic. According to behavorial neuroscientist Ewan McNay, who has conducted research in this area, “A rough calculation suggests that thinking hard about a task for 30 minutes might burn about 1/30th of [...]

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Posted March 3, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies