Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering

By Kalina Christoff, A. Gordon, J. Smallwood, Rachelle Smith, Jonathan W. Schooler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past (2013, background): “The second study used ecological momentary sampling during fMRI scanning of a rote cognitive task and found enhanced activity in the default mode network during intervals when subjects’ minds wandered off task (Christoff et al., 2009).”
Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing. (2011, background): “These simulations capture some of the empirical observations on inattentional blindness (Mack and Rock, 1998) and mind wandering (Christoff et al., 2009; Mason et al., 2007; Smallwood et al., 2008).”
Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy (2008, background): “…in self-referential processing such as introspection about one’s own mind, mental self-projection and mind-wandering (Buckner and Carroll, 2007; Christoff et al., 2009; Jenkins and Mitchell, 2011; Schooler et al., 2011; see also Chapters 8, 11, 13, 20 for evidence linking the mPFC to more…”
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness. (2015, methodology): “…et al. 2010), and changes in electroencephalography (EEG) readings (Baird et al. 2014, Barron et al. 2011, Kam et al. 2011, Smallwood et al. 2008a) and in the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal as recorded during fMRI (Allen et al. 2013, Christoff et al. 2009, Stawarczyk et al. 2011a).”
Creative workplace: instrumental and symbolic support for creativity (2011, background): “Though creative thinking is often unconscious, our brain seems unusually active and uses several areas associated with complex problem solving (Christoff et al., 2009).”
Dynamic functional connectivity of the default mode network tracks daydreaming (2014, background): “Evidence from functional MRI (fMRI) coupled with thought probes suggests that the DMN is activated during mind-wandering (Christoff et al., 2009; Kucyi et al., 2013).”
Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI (2020, neutral): ““On-line” measurement methods such as thought probes and experience sampling can provide relatively frequent self-reports of mental state (Christoff, Gordon, Smallwood, Smith, & Schooler, 2009; Kucyi & Davis, 2014; Kucyi et al., 2016) but at the risk of inducing an “observer effect” through demand…”
How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network? (2011, methodology): “Furthermore, because the relationship between the DMN andmindwandering is not clear, the foci noted in studies of mind wandering (Christoff et al., 2009) were also not used in the present study.”
Unraveling inner experiences during resting state (2013, background): “This is the case even, for instance, when subjects know their mind wandering during a sustained attention task will be sampled (Christoff et al., 2009).”
Resting‐state networks show dynamic functional connectivity in awake humans and anesthetized macaques (2013, methodology): “These can include a spectrum of stimulus-independent activities such as mind wandering [Christoff et al., 2009; Mason et al., 2007] or more active, stimulus-oriented processing such as monitoring the internal or external environment [Gilbert et al., 2007].”