Interrupting the "stream of consciousness": An fMRI investigation

By Kristen A. McKiernan, Benjamin R. D'Angelo, James C. Kaufman, Jeffrey R. Binder. NeuroImage, 2006

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Functional connectivity of default mode network components: correlation, anticorrelation, and causality (2008, background): “Still others associate default mode function with more general processes such as stimulus-independent [Mason et al., 2007] or taskunrelated thought [McKiernan et al., 2006].”
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness. (2015, background): “…is active when participants engage in the sort of thinking that occurs during mind wandering, such as thoughts about the future, of themselves, or of other people (Andrews-Hanna et al. 2014), and it was swiftly linked to the mind-wandering state (Mason et al. 2007; McKiernan et al. 2003, 2006).”
Both the Middle Temporal Gyrus and the Ventral Anterior Temporal Area Are Crucial for Multimodal Semantic Processing: Distortion-corrected fMRI Evidence for a Double Gradient of Information Convergence in the Temporal Lobes (2012, methodology): “…the temporal lobe is mirrored by past neuroimaging studies that have associated the pSTG and pITG with phonological and visual form processing, respectively (Okada & Hickok, 2006a, 2006b; Chao et al., 1999, 2002; Scott et al., 2000; Moore & Price, 1999; Martin et al., 1996; Demonet et al., 1992).”
Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network (2016, unknown): “Similarly, imaging studies that have examined subjective reports of mind-wandering have noted substantial overlap with DMN regions (McKiernan et al., 2006; Mason et al., 2007).”
The intrinsic functional organization of the brain is altered in autism (2008, background): “, the two-back working memory task (Fransson, 2006)) and TNN activity (McKiernan et al., 2006), thus reducing or removing the influence of differences in spontaneous mental and subsequent functional activity on TNN connectivity.”
Inner experience in the scanner: can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014, background): “One approach is to train participants on a particular cognitive task that is conducive to mind wandering, deploy the task in the scanner, ask participants to report instances of mind wandering, and then correlate this with DMN activity (McKiernan et al., 2006; Mason et al., 2007).”
How default is the default mode of brain function? Further evidence from intrinsic BOLD signal fluctuations. (2006, background): “Moreover, in a recent follow-up study the same roup showed that the frequency of so-called TUTs (task unelated thoughts) co-varied with the magnitude of task-induced eactivation in four left hemisphere regions implicated in selfeferential thought (McKiernan et al., 2006).”
Neural activity that predicts subsequent memory and forgetting: A meta-analysis of 74 fMRI studies (2011, background): “Of greater direct relevance to SF effects, activation of these regions during an exogenous task may signal a wandering mind or momentary lapse of attention (Christoff et al., 2009; Mason et al., 2007; McKiernan et al., 2006; Weissman et al., 2006).”
Transient and linearly graded deactivation of the human default-mode network by a visual detection task (2008, unknown): “A related finding is that activity in the DMN varies with the amount of daydreaming, or taskirrelevant thoughts, in participants (Mason et al., 2007; McKiernan et al., 2006).”
Why the Global Availability of Mind Wandering Necessitates Resource Competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010) (2010, background): “…across different situations (e.g., the global availability of default information), a perspective that is supported by the converging activations in default networks at rest and in high-incidence periods of mind wandering (Christoff et al., 2009; Mason et al., 2007; McKiernan et al., 2006).”
Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference. (2007, background): “SIT-related neural activation has been shown to reflect an automatic tendency to engage in narrative processes in the absence of a strong requirement to respond to external stimuli (McKiernan et al., 2006).”
Associations and dissociations between default and self-reference networks in the human brain (2011, background): “…during rest than during goal-directed tasks (d'Argembeau et al., 2005; Mason et al., 2007), and that activations in these regions correlate with the incidence of self-referential thoughts during unrelated tasks (ventral MPFC: d'Argembeau et al., 2005; ventral MPFC and PCC: McKiernan et al., 2006).”
The Brain's Default Network (2008, methodology): “Other disorders for which important links are being made to the default network but are beyond the scope of this review include depression, obsessional disorders, attention-deﬁcit/hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.”