Distant from input: Evidence of regions within the default mode network supporting perceptually-decoupled and conceptually-guided cognition
Neuroimage January 12, 2018 Charlotte Murphy, Elizabeth Jefferies, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer et al. 288 citations
The default mode network supports a variety of mental operations such as semantic processing, episodic memory retrieval, mental time travel and mind-wandering, yet the commonalities between these functions remains unclear. One possibility is that this system supports cognition that is independent of the immediate environment; alternatively or additionally, it might support higher-order...