Escaping the here and now: Evidence for a role of the default mode network in perceptually decoupled thought

NeuroImage

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-125

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a   Tipper, Christine ^b   Brown, Kevin ^b   Baird, Benjamin ^b   Engen, Haakon ^a   Michaels, Joseph R ^b   Grafton, Scott ^b   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absent minded lapses; Daydreaming; Default mode network; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mind wandering; Posterior cingulate; Response time; Stimulus independent thought

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIND WANDERING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUALLY DECOUPLED THOUGHT; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872197934     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.012     Document Type: Article

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