The Default Mode Network (DMN) is a collection of interconnected transmodal cortical areas that was originally found to be engaged when people do not focus on external sensory stimuli but instead attend to their inner thoughts. More recent experiments have shown that it is also recruited during externally oriented tasks that require the processing of concepts, including the increasingly complex...
The default mode network (DMN) is a collection of interconnected transmodal brain regions that is engaged during internally oriented thought processes. It has been linked with multiple functions, including self-referential judgment, social cognition, episodic memory, and semantic memory. In an effort to identify a unitary overarching purpose of the DMN, Menon [Menon, V. 20 years of the default...
To locate consciousness in the flow of synaptic activity in the brain, we must first locate it in the flow of information processing in the mind. Two different positions have been debated for centuries. The liberal view maintains that the contents of experience include not only sensory, motor, and affective states, but also concepts and the thoughts they enter into. In contrast, the...