Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive neuroscience has gained insight into covert states using experience sampling. Traditionally, this approach has focused on off-task states. However, task-relevant states are also maintained via covert processes. Our study examined whether experience sampling can also provide insights into covert goal-relevant states that support task performance. To address this question, we developed a neural state space, using dimensions of brain function variation, that allows neural correlates of overt and covert states to be examined in a common analytic space. We use this to describe brain activity during task performance, its relation to covert states identified via experience sampling, and links between individual variation in overt and covert states and task performance. Our study establi

SUBMITTER: Mckeown B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10709616 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature