Resting-state BOLD temporal variability of the default mode network predicts spontaneous mind wandering, which is negatively associated with mindfulness skills.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 22, 2025 Sara Sorella, Cristiano Crescentini, Alessio Matiz et al. 8 citations
Mind wandering (MW) encompasses both a deliberate and a spontaneous disengagement of attention from the immediate external environment to unrelated internal thoughts. Importantly, MW has been suggested to have an inverse relationship with mindfulness, a state of nonjudgmental awareness of present-moment experience. Although they are, respectively, associated with increased and decreased...
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1515902 (opens in new tab)
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Unprompted thoughts
Spontaneous mind wandering
Unwanted mental excursions
Brain's resting activity
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