Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: a fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states.
Neuroimage January 2, 2012 Wendy Hasenkamp, Christine D Wilson-Mendenhall, Erica Duncan et al.
Studies have suggested that the default mode network is active during mind wandering, which is often experienced intermittently during sustained attention tasks. Conversely, an anticorrelated task-positive network is thought to subserve various forms of attentional processing. Understanding how these two systems work together is central for understanding many forms of optimal and sub-optimal...