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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Psychology

Background:

  • The default mode network (DMN) is central to task-free cognition.
  • Mind-wandering engages the DMN, highlighting its functional role.
  • The phenomenological experience of mind-wandering lacks neuroimaging correlates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural basis of the phenomenological aspect of mind-wandering.
  • To explore individual differences in the neural representation of mind-wandering content.

Main Methods:

  • Online thought sampling during a fixation task in fMRI.
  • 10 hours of scanning per participant, labeling over 200 mind-wandering episodes.
  • Linear support vector machine classification of sensory content in mind-wandering.

Main Results:

  • Decoding accuracy was significantly higher in content-corresponding sensory cortices.
  • Neural signatures of mind-wandering phenomenology were identified.
  • Distinct individual patterns of neural classification emerged.

Conclusions:

  • The study reveals the neural underpinnings of subjective mind-wandering experiences.
  • Sensory cortices play a role in the phenomenology of mind-wandering.
  • Individual neural patterns reflect unique phenomenal experiences.