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The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Smallwood, Jonathan, Turnbull, Adam, Wang, Hao-ting, Ho, Nerissa S.P., Poerio, Giulia L., Karapanagiotidis, Theodoros, Konu, Delali, Mckeown, Bront?, Zhang, Meichao, Murphy, Charlotte, Vatansever, Deniz, Bzdok, Danilo, Konishi, Mahiko, Leech, Robert, Seli, Paul, Schooler, Jonathan W., Bernhardt, Boris, Margulies, Daniel S. and Jefferies, Elizabeth 2021. The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience 24 (3) , 102132. 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132

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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.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Publisher: Cell Press
ISSN: 2589-0042
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 10 August 2021
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2024 02:25
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143133

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