The ability to mentally wander away from the external environment is a remarkable feature of
the human mind. Although recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in examining …

A core goal in cognitive neuroscience is identifying the physical substrates of the patterns of
thought that occupy our daily lives. Contemporary views suggest that the landscape of …

With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public
have become increasingly vocal about the role that an 'attention economy'has in our lives …

What is your brain doing while your mind is wandering? This study used a within-subjects
experience-sampling design to test whether episodes of mind-wandering during a …

Mind wandering reflects the shift in attentional focus from task-related cognition driven by
external stimuli toward self-generated and internally-oriented thought processes. Although …

The advent of mobile electroencephalography (mEEG) has created a means for large scale
collection of neural data thus affording a deeper insight into cognitive phenomena such as …

Mind wandering is often characterized by attention oriented away from an external task
towards our internal, self-generated thoughts. This universal phenomenon has been linked …

Lapses in attention can have serious consequences in situations such as driving a car,
hence there is considerable interest in tracking it using neural measures. However, as most …

Previous literature suggests that individuals with meditation training become less distracted
during meditation practice. In this study, we assess whether putative differences in the …

Abstract Interpretations of task performance in many cognitive studies rest on the
assumption that participants are fully attentive to the tasks they agree to complete. However …