Predicting lapses of attention with sleep-like slow waves.
Nature Communications June 29, 2021 Thomas Andrillon, Angus C. Burns, Teigane Mackay et al. 13 citations
Attentional lapses occur commonly and are associated with mind wandering, where focus is turned to thoughts unrelated to ongoing tasks and environmental demands, or mind blanking, where the stream of consciousness itself comes to a halt. To understand the neural mechanisms underlying attentional lapses, we studied the behaviour, subjective experience and neural activity of healthy participants...