Creativity Research Journal

Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity.

Creativity Research Journal 2023 William Orwig, Ibai Diez, Elisenda Bueichekú et al.

Studies suggest that internally oriented cognitive processes are central to creativity. Here, we distinguish between intentional and unintentional forms of mind wandering and explore their behavioral and neural correlates. We used a sample of 155 healthy adults from the mind-brain-body dataset, all of whom completed resting-state fMRI scans and trait-level measures of mind wandering. We...