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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2025

Resting-state BOLD temporal variability of the default mode network predicts spontaneous mind wandering, which is negatively associated with mindfulness skills.

Sara Sorella, Cristiano Crescentini, Alessio Matiz, Minah Chang, Alessandro Grecucci

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Sara SorellaDepartment of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Cristiano CrescentiniDepartment of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Alessio MatizDepartment of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Minah ChangClinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Alessandro GrecucciClinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.

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Abstract

Mind wandering (MW) encompasses both a deliberate and a spontaneous disengagement of attention from the immediate external environment to unrelated internal thoughts. Importantly, MW has been suggested to have an inverse relationship with mindfulness, a state of nonjudgmental awareness of present-moment experience. Although they are, respectively, associated with increased and decreased activity in the default mode network (DMN), the specific contributions of deliberate and spontaneous MW, and their relationships with mindfulness abilities and resting-state macro networks remain to be elucidated. Therefore, resting-state MRI scans from 76 participants were analyzed with group independent component analysis to decompose brain networks into independent macro-networks and to see which of them predicted specific aspects of spontaneous and deliberate MW or mindfulness traits. Our results show that temporal variability of the resting-state DMN predicts spontaneous MW, which in turn is negatively associated with the

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default mode networkdeliberate mind wanderingmindfulnessmind wanderingspontaneous mind wanderingtemporal variability

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PMCPMC11794827

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