Dreaming as mind wandering: Evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Fox, Kieran C R ^a   Nijeboer, Savannah ^a   Solomonova, Elizaveta ^b,c,d   Domhoff, G William ^e   Christoff, Kalina ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creativity; Current concerns; Daydreaming; Default Mode Network; DMN; Dreaming; Fantasy; First person report; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insulin; Introspection; Memory consolidation; Meta analysis; Metacognition; Mind wandering; Neurophenomenology; NREM sleep; Positron emission tomography (PET); Prefrontal Cortex; REM sleep; Sleep; Spontaneous thought; Subjective report

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DREAMING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIND WANDERING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REM SLEEP; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84933670367     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00412     Document Type: Article

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