What is your brain doing when you’re unaware of your actions?

A new study digs into what the brain is doing when we’re unaware of our actions.

Hal Blumenfeld, a 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 where he entered. He found it on the opposite end. He’d moved it himself while swimming, with no memory of doing so.

“I had no idea that I had...