The ability to mentally wander away from the external environment is a remarkable feature of
the human mind. Although recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in examining …

Mind wandering during ongoing tasks can impede task performance and increase the risk of
failure in the laboratory as well as in daily‐life tasks and work environments. Neurocognitive …

Mind wandering is often characterized by attention oriented away from an external task
towards our internal, self-generated thoughts. This universal phenomenon has been linked …

Humans mind-wander quite intensely. Mind wandering is markedly different from other
cognitive behaviors because it is spontaneous, self-generated, and inwardly directed (inner …

Mind-wandering (MW) is among the most robust and permanent expressions of human
conscious awareness, classically regarded by philosophers, clinicians, and scientists as a …

Mind-wandering refers to the process of thinking task-unrelated thoughts while performing a
task. The dynamics of mind-wandering remain elusive because it is difficult to track when …

What is your brain doing while your mind is wandering? This study used a within-subjects
experience-sampling design to test whether episodes of mind-wandering during a …

Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed a surge of interest in investigating the neural
correlates of the mind when it drifts away from an ongoing task and the external …

Converging evidence from neuroscience suggests that our attention to the outside world
waxes and wanes over time. We examined whether these periods of “mind wandering” are …

Mind wandering is an ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday life. In the cognitive
neurosciences, mind wandering has been associated with several distinct neural processes …