Giulia L. Poerio

TL;DR: A study combining experience sampling with functional neuroimaging concludes that activity within the DMN encodes information associated with ongoing cognition that goes beyond whether attention is directed to the task, including detailed experiences during active task states.

TL;DR: While sadness tended to precede mind-wandering, mind-Wandering itself was not associated with later mood and only predicted feeling worse if its content was negative, suggesting mind- wandering is not inherently detrimental to well-being.

TL;DR: Testing the emotional and physiological correlates of the ASMR response indicates that ASMR is a reliable and physiologically-rooted experience that may have therapeutic benefits for mental and physical health.

TL;DR: This study examines the relationships between individual differences in resting-state DMN connectivity, performance on memory, social and planning tasks and variability in spontaneous thought to investigate whether the DMN is critical to mind-wandering because it supports stimulus-independent cognition, memory retrieval, or both.

TL;DR: These data provide the most convincing evidence to date for an ontological view of the mind-wandering state as encompassing a broad range of different experiences and show that this heterogeneity underlies mind wandering’s complex relationship to psychological functioning.