Dimensions of Experience: Exploring the Heterogeneity of the Wandering Mind.

ABSTRACT: The tendency for the mind to wander to concerns other than the task at hand is a fundamental feature of human cognition, yet the consequences of variations in its experiential content for psychological functioning are not well understood. Here, we adopted multivariate pattern analysis to simultaneously decompose experience-sampling data and neural functional-connectivity data, which revealed dimensions that simultaneously describe individual variation in self-reported experience and default-mode-network connectivity. We identified dimensions corresponding to traits of positive-habitual thoughts and spontaneous task-unrelated thoughts. These dimensions were uniquely related to aspects of cognition, such as executive control and the ability to generate information in a creative fashion, and

SUBMITTER: Wang HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346304 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature