ArticleScience advances2022
When self comes to a wandering mind: Brain representations and dynamics of self-generated concepts in spontaneous thought.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Phenomenology of the stream of thought: dissociable dynamic dimensions revealed through experience sampling.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about friends and value relationships over money.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Building a construct-valid battery of performance and self-report indicators of sustained attention consistency.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Neural dynamics of spontaneous memory recall and future thinking in the continuous flow of thoughts.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Spontaneous thought separates into clusters of negative, positive, and flexible thinking.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Brain-based predictive modeling of mind-wandering and involuntary thought: the idiographic approach.Technology, mind, and behavior · 2025Article
- Digital assessment of cognitive-affective biases related to mental health.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Neural Dynamics of Self-Referential Processing and the Insight for Decoding Self-Concepts.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Brain decoding of spontaneous thought: Predictive modeling of self-relevance and valence using personal narratives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A free association semantic task for fNIRS-based perinatal depression assessment.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Self-relevant concepts are major building blocks of spontaneous thought, and their dynamics in a natural stream of thought are likely to reveal one's internal states that are important for mental health. Here, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment (
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