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The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.

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Smallwood, J; Turnbull, A; Wang, H-T; Ho, NSP; Poerio, GL; Karapanagiotidis, T; Konu, D; Mckeown, B; Zhang, M; Murphy, C; Vatansever, D ...
Published in: iScience
March 2021

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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2589-0042

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2589-0042

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March 2021

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24

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3

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102132
 

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Smallwood, J., Turnbull, A., Wang, H.-T., Ho, N. S. P., Poerio, G. L., Karapanagiotidis, T., … Jefferies, E. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. IScience, 24(3), 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132
Smallwood, Jonathan, Adam Turnbull, Hao-Ting Wang, Nerissa S. P. Ho, Giulia L. Poerio, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Delali Konu, et al. “The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.IScience 24, no. 3 (March 2021): 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132.
Smallwood J, Turnbull A, Wang H-T, Ho NSP, Poerio GL, Karapanagiotidis T, et al. The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience. 2021 Mar;24(3):102132.
Smallwood, Jonathan, et al. “The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.IScience, vol. 24, no. 3, Mar. 2021, p. 102132. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132.
Smallwood J, Turnbull A, Wang H-T, Ho NSP, Poerio GL, Karapanagiotidis T, Konu D, Mckeown B, Zhang M, Murphy C, Vatansever D, Bzdok D, Konishi M, Leech R, Seli P, Schooler JW, Bernhardt B, Margulies DS, Jefferies E. The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience. 2021 Mar;24(3):102132.
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Published In

iScience

DOI

EISSN

2589-0042

ISSN

2589-0042

Publication Date

March 2021

Volume

24

Issue

3

Start / End Page

102132