Neurocognitive patterns dissociating semantic processing from executive control are linked to more detailed off-task mental time travel.

ABSTRACT: Features of ongoing experience are common across individuals and cultures. However, certain people express specific patterns of thought to a greater extent than others. Contemporary psychological theory assumes that individual differences in thought patterns occur because different types of experience depend on the expression of different neurocognitive processes. Consequently, individual variation in the underlying neurocognitive architecture is hypothesised to determine the ease with which certain thought patterns are generated or maintained. Our study (N = 178) tested this hypothesis using multivariate pattern analysis to infer shared variance among measures of cognitive function and neural organisation and examined whether these latent variables explained reports of the patterns of on-

SUBMITTER: Wang HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368037 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature