ReviewiScience2021
The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.
Review in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Real-time fMRI-triggered experience-sampling: a proof-of-concept study.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- An fMRI dataset of verbalized spontaneous thought with annotated transcripts and self-report trait measures.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Capturing naturalistic thoughts using a precision experience sampling idiographic approach.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Uncovering the embodied dimension of the wandering mind.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Phenomenology of the stream of thought: dissociable dynamic dimensions revealed through experience sampling.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Intraindividual Variability Matters for the Correspondence Between Subjective Arousal, Valence, and Physiological Responses.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Neural state reduction: a quantum-inspired framework for how latent conscious thought becomes reportable.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Brain signal complexity tracks mind-wandering and visual perceptual learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Distinct distributed brain networks dissociate self-generated mental states.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind blanking occurrences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effective engagement in computerized cognitive training for older adults.Ageing research reviews · 2025Review
- Self-reports map the landscape of task states derived from brain imaging.Communications psychology · 2025Article
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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.
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