… Spreng and colleagues162 collected fMRI data from participants during completion of two
different planning tasks: visuospatial planning, as assessed by the well-established Tower of …

During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Most research on mind-wandering has characterized it as a mental state with contents that
are task unrelated or stimulus independent. However, the dynamics of mind-wandering — …

… ) maps almost identically onto the distribution of recalled past events (the “retention function”);
this close similarity replicates across individuals at different points in their lifespan (Spreng …

… RN Spreng and MC McKinnon contributed equally to this work. We thank Ewa Munro and
Pheth Sengdy for assistance in compiling the questionnaire measures and Colin De Young for …

Tasks that demand externalized attention reliably suppress default network activity while
activating the dorsal attention network. These networks have an intrinsic competitive …

The ability to rise above the present environment and reflect upon the past, the future, and
the minds of others is a fundamentally defining human feature. It has been proposed that …

Human cognition is increasingly characterized as an emergent property of interactions
among distributed, functionally specialized brain networks. We recently demonstrated that the …

The neural basis and cognitive functions of various spontaneous thought processes, particularly
mind-wandering, are increasingly being investigated. Although strong links have been …

Neurotransmitter receptors support the propagation of signals in the human brain. How
receptor systems are situated within macro-scale neuroanatomy and how they shape emergent …