[HTML][HTML] The wandering brain: Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes

KCR Fox, RN Spreng, M Ellamil, JR Andrews-Hanna… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
The neural basis and cognitive functions of various spontaneous thought processes,
particularly mind-wandering, are increasingly being investigated. Although strong links have …

Memory integration: neural mechanisms and implications for behavior

ML Schlichting, AR Preston - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Prior related memories are reactivated during new learning events.•Medial PFC
guides reactivation toward related, goal-relevant knowledge.•Hippocampus compares …

A positive-negative mode of population covariation links brain connectivity, demographics and behavior

SM Smith, TE Nichols, D Vidaurre, AM Winkler… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We investigated the relationship between individual subjects' functional connectomes and
280 behavioral and demographic measures in a single holistic multivariate analysis relating …

Default and executive network coupling supports creative idea production

RE Beaty, M Benedek, S Barry Kaufman, PJ Silvia - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The role of attention in creative cognition remains controversial. Neuroimaging studies have
reported activation of brain regions linked to both cognitive control and spontaneous …

Specifying the core network supporting episodic simulation and episodic memory by activation likelihood estimation

RG Benoit, DL Schacter - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been suggested that the simulation of hypothetical episodes and the recollection of
past episodes are supported by fundamentally the same set of brain regions. The present …

Hippocampal place cells construct reward related sequences through unexplored space

HF Ólafsdóttir, C Barry, AB Saleem, D Hassabis… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Dominant theories of hippocampal function propose that place cell representations are
formed during an animal's first encounter with a novel environment and are subsequently …

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

RE Beaty - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Researchers have recently begun to examine the neural basis of musical improvisation, one
of the most complex forms of creative behavior. The emerging field of improvisation …

Creativity and memory: Effects of an episodic-specificity induction on divergent thinking

KP Madore, DR Addis, DL Schacter - Psychological science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
People produce more episodic details when imagining future events and solving means-end
problems after receiving an episodic-specificity induction—brief training in recollecting …

Episodic future thinking and episodic counterfactual thinking: Intersections between memory and decisions

DL Schacter, RG Benoit, F De Brigard… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2015 - Elsevier
This article considers two recent lines of research concerned with the construction of
imagined or simulated events that can provide insight into the relationship between memory …

The mental representation of trait and autobiographical knowledge about the self

SB Klein, J Loftus - The mental representation of trait and …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
If there is one topic on which we all are experts, it is ourselves. Psychologists depend on this
expertise, as asking people questions about themselves is an important means by which …