Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 319-326

  Schooler, Jonathan W ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^b   Christoff, Kalina ^c   Handy, Todd C ^c   Reichle, Erik D ^d   Sayette, Michael A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE PROCESSING; SENSORY INFORMATION;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; META AWARENESS; MIND WANDERING; NERVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL DECOUPLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959906935     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.05.006     Document Type: Review

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