Default positions: How neuroscience's historical legacy has hampered investigation of the resting mind

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Callard, Felicity ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^b   Margulies, Daniel S ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Daydreaming; Default mode network; History of cognitive neuroscience; Mind wandering; Resting state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867062025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00321     Document Type: Article

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