Focused attention meditation in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional functional MRI studies

S Ganesan, E Beyer, B Moffat, NT Van Dam… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Meditation trains the mind to focus attention towards an object or experience. Among
different meditation techniques, focused attention meditation is considered foundational for …

A systematic review of creativity-related studies applying the remote associates test from 2000 to 2019

CL Wu, SY Huang, PZ Chen, HC Chen - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The study examines how the remote associates test (RAT) has been used to examine
theories of creativity through a review of recent studies on creativity. Creativity-related …

Psychedelics, meditation, and self-consciousness

R Millière, RL Carhart-Harris, L Roseman… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the scientific study of meditation and psychedelic drugs has seen
remarkable developments. The increased focus on meditation in cognitive neuroscience has …

Prediction of stimulus-independent and task-unrelated thought from functional brain networks

A Kucyi, M Esterman, J Capella, A Green… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neural substrates of “mind wandering” have been widely reported, yet experiments have
varied in their contexts and their definitions of this psychological phenomenon, limiting …

What's in a task? Complications in the study of the task-unrelated-thought variety of mind wandering

S Murray, K Krasich, JW Schooler… - Perspectives on …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, the number of studies examining mind wandering has increased
considerably, and research on the topic has spread widely across various domains of …

Evidence from “big data” for the default-mode hypothesis of ADHD: a mega-analysis of multiple large samples

LJ Norman, G Sudre, J Price, GG Shastri… - …, 2023 - nature.com
We sought to identify resting-state characteristics related to attention deficit/hyperactivity
disorder, both as a categorical diagnosis and as a trait feature, using large-scale samples …

Dynamic brain network configurations during rest and an attention task with frequent occurrence of mind wandering

E Denkova, JS Nomi, LQ Uddin… - Human brain mapping, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mind wandering (MW) has become a prominent topic of neuroscientific investigation due to
the importance of understanding attentional processes in our day‐to‐day experiences …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting response time variability from task and resting-state functional connectivity in the aging brain

O Gbadeyan, J Teng, RS Prakash - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Aging is associated with declines in a host of cognitive functions, including attentional
control, inhibitory control, episodic memory, processing speed, and executive functioning …

Functional segregation of executive control network and frontoparietal network in Alzheimer's disease

Q Zhao, X Sang, H Metmer, J Lu… - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Functional connectivity pattern altered of default mode network (DMN) is gaining more
attention as a potential noninvasive biomarker to diagnose incipient Alzheimer's disease …

Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental health

A Kucyi, JWY Kam, JR Andrews-Hanna… - Nature mental …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract People spend a remarkable 30–50% of their awake life thinking about something
other than what they are currently doing. These experiences of being 'off-task'can be …