The balanced mind: the variability of task-unrelated thoughts predicts error monitoring.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013 Micah Allen, Jonathan Smallwood, Joanna Christensen et al. 100 citations
Self-generated thoughts unrelated to ongoing activities, also known as "mind-wandering," make up a substantial portion of our daily lives. Reports of such task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) predict both poor performance on demanding cognitive tasks and blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) activity in the default mode network (DMN). However, recent findings suggest that TUTs and the DMN can also...