What the brain is doing when we're unaware of our actions

Hal Blumenfeld, MD, Ph.D., the Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), got out of the pool one afternoon and couldn't find his watch.

He was certain he'd left it at the side of the pool where he entered.

He found it on the opposite end.

He'd moved it himself while swimming, with no memory of doing so. ...