What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network.

Study at a glance

Characteristics	Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics	Default mode network
Key points	Argues that episodic memory is central to the default mode network's function, and that the DMN's role in mental scene construction and self-projection is revealed through memory processes. Proposes that DMN dysfunction underlies memory deficits in neurological conditions.

Other theoretical and historical papers on default mode network, most cited first.

Study	Year	Design
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs	2014	Theoretical or philosophical paper
The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective	2021	Theoretical or philosophical paper
The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world	2021	Theoretical or philosophical paper
The default-mode, ego-functions and free-energy: a neurobiological account of Freudian ideas	2010	Theoretical or philosophical paper
Cooperation between the default mode network and the frontal–parietal network in the production of an internal train of thought	2011	Theoretical or philosophical paper