This default network also becomes active when you think about yourself or other people; it holds together a “narrative.” A narrative is a story line with characters interacting with one another over time. The brain holds vast stores of information about your own and other people’s history. When the default network is active, you are thinking about your history and future and all the people you know, including yourself, and how this giant tapestry of information weaves together. In the Farb study, they like to call the default network the narrative circuitry.
