Shaped by our thoughts - A new task to assess spontaneous cognition and its associated neural correlates in the default network

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  O'Callaghan, Claire ^a,b   Shine, James M ^c   Lewis, Simon J G ^c   Andrews Hanna, Jessica R ^d   Irish, Muireann ^a,b,e  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Default network; Medial temporal lobes; Mind wandering; Phenomenology; Resting state functional connectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEMORY BASED CONSTRUCTION; METACOGNITIVE BASED CONTENT; MIND WANDERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SHAPE EXPECTATION TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING;

EID: 84910656702     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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