Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) reveals brain dynamics in a task-unconstrained environment as
subjects let their minds wander freely. Consequently, resting subjects navigate a rich space …

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 …

We investigated the impact of mindfulness training (MT) on attentional performance lapses
associated with task-unrelated thought (ie, mind wandering). Periods of persistent and …

Nearly 60 years ago, Jerome L. Singer launched a groundbreaking research program into
daydreaming (,,) that presaged and laid the foundation for virtually every major strand of …

Externally directed cognition (EDC) involves attending to stimuli in the external environment,
whereas internally directed cognition (IDC) involves attending internally to thoughts …

The ability to imagine the future is a complex mental faculty that depends on an ensemble of
cognitive processes supported by an extended set of brain regions. Our aim here was to …

Here we test the hypothesis that fluctuations in subjective reports of mind wandering over
time-on-task are associated with fluctuations in performance over time-on-task. In Study 1 …

Humans spend much of their lives engaging with their internal train of thoughts.
Traditionally, research focused on whether or not these thoughts are related to ongoing …

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 …

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 …