What goes on in the resting-state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Hurlburt, Russell T ^a   Alderson Day, Ben ^b   Fernyhough, Charles ^b   Kühn, Simone ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Default mode network (DMN); Descriptive experience sampling (DES); FMRI; Mind wandering; Resting state; Resting State Questionnaire (ReSQ)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947237705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01535     Document Type: Article

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