Projektnummer

0058695

Zusammenfassung

This project is an interdisciplinary investigation - both empirical and conceptual - of the phenomenon of mind-wandering. Having only recently become an object of major study in psychology and neuroscience, mind-wandering is today positioned as key to understanding many aspects of human cognition and psychological wellbeing. However, researchers are still puzzling over how best to concretely define mind-wandering and related phenomena (e.g. daydreaming, self-generated thought, fantasy, or spontaneous cognition). Such clarification is critical to developing neuroimaging paradigms to in...