Mind-wandering increases in frequency over time during task performance: An individual-participant meta-analytic review.

AP Zanesco, E Denkova, AP Jha - Psychological Bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Attention has a seemingly inevitable tendency to turn inward toward our thoughts. Mind-
wandering refers to moments when this inward focus diverts attention away from the current …

Modulating brain activity and behaviour with tDCS: Rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated

HL Filmer, JB Mattingley, PE Dux - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Transcranial electrical brain stimulation (tES) techniques have shown substantial promise in
research and applied settings. However, over the last few years the technique has courted …

Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG

JWY Kam, M Mittner, RT Knight - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed a surge of interest in investigating the neural
correlates of the mind when it drifts away from an ongoing task and the external …

Reconceptualizing mind wandering from a switching perspective

YS Wong, AR Willoughby, L Machado - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
Mind wandering is a universal phenomenon in which our attention shifts away from the task
at hand toward task-unrelated thoughts. Despite it inherently involving a shift in mental set …

Neurochemical Predictors of Generalized Learning Induced by Brain Stimulation and Training

SE Ehrhardt, Y Wards, R Rideaux… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Methods of cognitive enhancement for humans are most impactful when they generalize
across tasks. However, the extent to which such “transfer” is possible via interventions is …

tDCS augments decision-making efficiency in an intensity dependent manner: a training study

SE Ehrhardt, T Ballard, Y Wards, JB Mattingley… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the prefrontal cortex has
the potential to improve performance more than cognitive training alone. Such stimulation …

Stimulating task unrelated thoughts: tDCS of prefrontal and parietal cortices leads to polarity specific increases in mind wandering

HL Filmer, LH Marcus, PE Dux - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Mind wandering has been associated with both adaptive outcomes and performance
impairment, depending on the context. Recently, non-invasive brain stimulation has been …

The interaction of the dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex during mind wandering

V Nejati, B Zamiran, MA Nitsche - Brain topography, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background and Aims Mind wandering refers to spontaneously occurring, often
disruptive thoughts during an ongoing task or resting state. The ventromedial prefrontal …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of mind wandering using transcranial direct current stimulation: A meta-analysis based on electric field modeling

H Nawani, M Mittner, G Csifcsák - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Mind wandering (MW) is a heterogeneous construct involving task-unrelated thoughts.
Recently, the interest in modulating MW propensity via non-invasive brain stimulation …

The interplay between executive control, behavioural variability and mind wandering: Insights from a high‐definition transcranial direct‐current stimulation study

NM Boayue, G Csifcsák, IV Kreis… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the involvement of executive processes in mind wandering is largely undebated, their
exact relationship is subject to an ongoing debate and rarely studied dynamically within …