Cooperation between the default mode network and the frontal–parietal network in the production of an internal train of thought
Brain Research April 15, 2011 Jonathan Smallwood, Kevin Brown, Ben Baird et al. 394 citations
The ability to generate and sustain an internal train of thought unrelated to external reality frees an agent from the constraints of only acting on immediate, environmentally triggered events. The current paper proposes that such thought is produced through cooperation between autobiographical information provided by the default mode network and a frontal-parietal control network which helps...