Introspective and Neurophysiological Measures of Mind Wandering in Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Patients with schizophrenia have often been considered to be "in their own world". However, this casual observation has not been proven by scientific evidence so far. This can be explained because scientific research has usually addressed cognition related to the processing of external stimuli, but only recently have efforts been made to explain thoughts, images and feelings not directly related to the external environment. This internally directed cognition has been called mind wandering. In this paper, we have explored mind wandering in schizophrenia under the hypothesis that a predominance of mind wandering would be a core dysfunction in this disorder. To this end, we collected verbal reports and measured electrophysiological signals from patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders a

SUBMITTER: Iglesias-Parro S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7076020 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature