Publication Date:
2007-01-20
Description:
Despite evidence pointing to a ubiquitous tendency of human minds to wander, little is known about the neural operations that support this core component of human cognition. Using both thought sampling and brain imaging, the current investigation demonstrated that mind-wandering is associated with activity in a default network of cortical regions that are active when the brain is "at rest." In addition, individuals' reports of the tendency of their minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821121/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821121/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mason, Malia F -- Norton, Michael I -- Van Horn, John D -- Wegner, Daniel M -- Grafton, Scott T -- Macrae, C Neil -- MH49127/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS033504/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS050614/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Jan 19;315(5810):393-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. malia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17234951" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Attention
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Brain Mapping
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Cerebral Cortex/*physiology
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Cognition
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Fantasy
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Female
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Humans
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Male
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Nerve Net/physiology
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Thinking/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
