Lost in thoughts: Neural markers of low alertness during mind wandering

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3040-3047

  Braboszcz, Claire ^a   Delorme, Arnaud ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Auditory oddball; EEG; Introspection; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MIND WANDERING; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; THINKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650951197     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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