Classifying the wandering mind: Revealing the affective content of thoughts during task-free rest periods

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-116

  Tusche, Anita ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^a,b   Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Singer, Tania ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Daydreaming; FMRI; Medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC); Multivariate pattern classification; Resting state; Self generated mental states

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT; AFFECT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REST;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REST; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901377778     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.076     Document Type: Article

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