Smallwood, Jonathan orcid.org/0000-0002-7298-2459, Turnbull, Adam, Wang, Hao ting et al. (16 more authors) (2021) The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience. 102132. ISSN 2589-0042
Abstract
A core goal in cognitive neuroscience is identifying the physical substrates of the patterns of thought that occupy our daily lives. Contemporary views suggest that the landscape of ongoing experience is heterogeneous and can be influenced by features of both the person and the context. This perspective piece considers recent work that explicitly accounts for both the heterogeneity of the experience and context dependence of patterns of ongoing thought. These studies reveal that systems linked to attention and control are important for organizing experience in response to changing environmental demands. These studies also establish a role of the default mode network beyond task-negative or purely episodic content, for example, implicating it in the level of vivid detail in experience in both task contexts and in spontaneous self-generated experiential states. Together, this work demonstrates that the landscape of ongoing thought is reflected in the activity of multiple neural systems, and it is important to distinguish between processes contributing to how the experience unfolds from those linked to how these experiences are regulated. Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Techniques in Neuroscience
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: This research was supported by a European Research Council consolidator award to the first author (WANDERINGMINDS - 646927 ). E.J. was supported by a European Research Council consolidator award (FLEXSEM – 771863 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Cognitive Neuroscience,Psychology,Techniques in Neuroscience |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2021 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172672 |