Interrupting the "stream of consciousness": an fMRI investigation.
Neuroimage February 15, 2006 Kristen A McKiernan, Benjamin R D'Angelo, Jacqueline N Kaufman et al.
In functional neuroimaging, a local decrease in blood flow during an active task, relative to a "resting" baseline, is referred to as task-induced deactivation (TID). TID may occur when resources shift from ongoing, internally generated processing typical of "resting" states to processing required by an exogenous task. We previously found specific brain regions in which TID increased as task...