Rumination is strongly and consistently correlated with depression. Although multiple studies have explored the neural correlates of rumination, findings have been inconsistent …
Most research on mind-wandering has characterized it as a mental state with contents that are task unrelated or stimulus independent. However, the dynamics of mind-wandering …
This article offers a formal account of curiosity and insight in terms of active (Bayesian) inference. It deals with the dual problem of inferring states of the world and learning its …
IR Kleckner, J Zhang, A Touroutoglou… - Nature human …, 2017 - nature.com
Large-scale intrinsic brain systems have been identified for exteroceptive senses (such as sight, hearing and touch). We introduce an analogous system for representing sensations …
RN Spreng, GR Turner - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive aging is often described in the context of loss or decline. Emerging research suggests that the story is more complex, with older adults showing both losses and gains in …
JD Eastwood, A Frischen… - Perspectives on …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Our central goal is to provide a definition of boredom in terms of the underlying mental processes that occur during an instance of boredom. Through the synthesis of …
The parahippocampal cortex (PHC) has been associated with many cognitive processes, including visuospatial processing and episodic memory. To characterize the role of PHC in …
Persisting negative thoughts are considered a hallmark of depression. Recent information- processing approaches have begun to uncover underlying mechanisms of depressive …
RA Mar - Annual review of psychology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
A great deal of research exists on the neural basis of theory-of-mind (ToM) or mentalizing. Qualitative reviews on this topic have identified a mentalizing network composed of the …