Benjamin W. Mooneyham

TL;DR: Recent studies have shown that mind-wandering may play a crucial role in both autobiographical planning and creative problem solving, thus providing at least two possible adaptive functions of the phenomenon.

TL;DR: Mind-wandering is a common everyday experience in which attention becomes disengaged from the immediate external environment and focused on internal trains of thought as mentioned in this paper, and it can have manifold effects on cognition and affect.

TL;DR: It is determined that an intervention emphasizing the cultivation of mindfulness increased the frequency of the state that had been associated with a greater propensity for focused attention, especially for those who improved most in dispositional mindfulness.

TL;DR: Convergence across these findings suggests that mindfulness may be associated with increased FC between two regions within the default network: the posterior cingulate cortex and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

TL;DR: These findings reveal that previously hidden within the common activity of reading aloud lies: a demonstration of the remarkable automaticity of speech, a situation that is surprisingly conducive to mind-wandering, subtle vocal signatures of mind-Wandering and comprehension accuracy, and the promise of developing useful interventions to improve reading.