Going AWOL in the Brain: Mind Wandering Reduces Cortical Analysis of External Events

By J. Smallwood, Emily Beach, Jonathan W. Schooler, Todd C. Handy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering (2009, result): “Although previous neuroimaging studies (6–8) have primarily linked mind wandering to default network recruitment, this executive system recruitment is consistent with behavioral findings indicating a processing overlap between mind wandering and central executive resources (5, 21, 22, 26), and may h”
The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering (2014, background): “Mind-wandering is routinely found to be associated with poor comprehension (Schooler et al., 2004; Smallwood, McSpadden, Luus, et al., 2008; Smallwood et al., 2008).”
A Correspondence between Individual Differences in the Brain's Intrinsic Functional Architecture and the Content and Form of Self-Generated Thoughts (2014, methodology): “no relation to perceptual input are correlated with changes in neural operation [10–14].”
Lost in thoughts: Neural markers of low alertness during mind wandering (2011, background): “In addition, the amplitude of the P300 event-related potential component was reduced during mind wandering, suggesting a decrease in attentional resources directed towards stimulus processing (Smallwood, Beach et al. 2008).”
Why the Global Availability of Mind Wandering Necessitates Resource Competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010) (2010, background): “…to this perspective, the lapse in proactive maintenance occurs first, and the mind wanders sometime later; this constitutes an important consideration in research (see, e.g., Cheyne, Solman, Carriere, & Smilek, 2009, for a three-stage model of mind wandering; see also Smallwood et al., 2008).”
Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science (2011, background): “Furthermore, experiments in cognitive neuroscience suggest that individuals process very little of their external environment when their minds wander (Smallwood et al. 2008), creating a lack of reference for states of lapsing attention.”
Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic review. (2009, background): “One study has investigated event-related potential (E correlates of mind wandering, symptomatic of DMN interfere (Smallwood et al., 2008).”
The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: a review. (2013, background): “…at some cost (McVay, Kane, & Kwapil, 2009; Reichle, Reineberg, & Schooler, 2010; Allan Cheyne et al., 2009; Smallwood, McSpadden, & Schooler, 2008; Smallwood et al., 2008; Smallwood et al., 2004), this has led to the notion that mind-wandering may be principally described as a failure of…”
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).”
Mind-wandering is unguided attention: accounting for the “purposeful” wanderer (2016, unknown): “Another is Tellegen and Atkinson’s (1974) classic account of the personality trait ‘‘absorption’’: ‘‘a disposition for having episodes of ‘‘total’’ attention that fully engage one’s representational (i.”