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Can We Use EOG to Identify When Attention Switches Away from the Outside World to Focus on Our Mental Thoughts?

Servais, A., Poveda, R., Gerony, H., Barbeau, E. J., & Hurter, C. (2022) · International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems (ICCAS) · doi:10.5220/0011950500003622 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Spontaneous thought dynamics as a signature of positive and negative affectivity

Lux, B. K., Lee, E., Han, J.-H., Lee, S., Gim, S., Choi, I., & Woo, C. (2026) · Communications Psychology · doi:10.1038/s44271-026-00498-5 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Understanding Sexual Fantasising: Implications for Forensic Practice and Research

Bartels, R. M. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-80212-7_2 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Targeted Memory Reactivation during Mind-Wandering in Younger and Older AdultsPreprint

Nicosia, J. (2022) · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · doi:10.7936/efga-z642 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Human hippocampal ripples loosen medial prefrontal constraints to foster creative thinkingPreprint

He, L., Wang, X., Zhang, J., Xiao, Z., Hu, X., & Liu, Y. (2025) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2025.07.22.666046 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Allostasis and uncertainty: An active inference perspective

Corcoran, A. W. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.26180/16570770 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Time, valence, and imagination: a comparative study of thoughts in restricted and unrestricted mind wandering

Li, H. C., & Hills, T. T. (2024) · Psychological Research · doi:10.1007/s00426-024-01969-2 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Spontaneous thought as play: the value of fictional goals in the default mode network

Molinaro, G., & Bar, M. (2025) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101504 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality

Fereidouni, H., Asad, M. R., & Robinson, M. D. (2025) · Journal of Research in Personality · doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104675 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about friends and value relationships over money

Shin, W.-G., Ahn, J., Choe, K. W., Lee, H., Han, J.-H., Lee, E., Lux, B. K., Woo, C., Choi, I., & Sul, S. (2025) · Communications Psychology · doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00341-3 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation

Joshi, D., Tompary, A., & Kucyi, A. (2025) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101622 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Dark thoughts: Default thought tendencies as a function of neuroticism

Asad, M. R., Fereidouni, H., & Robinson, M. D. (2026) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113726 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Patterns of Ongoing Thought Are Associated With Emotion Regulation and Negative Affect in Daily Life

Wang, R., Bas, L. M., Janet, R., Smallwood, J., Xu, Y., Morawetz, C., & Tusche, A. (2026) · Affective Science · doi:10.1007/s42761-026-00355-y · Cited by 1 · see citing works

A New Protocol to Study Mind-Wandering for Air Traffic Controllers

Servais, A., Riedinger, F., Granger, G., Imbert, J.-P., Barbeau, E. J., & Hurter, C. (2023) · Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors · doi:10.1027/2192-0923/a000253 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

An Integrative Conceptualization of Metacognitive Constructs: Implications Toward Stress and ResiliencePreprint

Suominen, P. (2020) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3721233 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Bodily Maps of Spontaneous ThoughtPreprint

Shin, H., Lux, B. K., Kim, H. J., & Woo, C. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.07.06.547921 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

How Adversarial Rem-Dreams May Facilitate Creativity, and Why We Become Aware of ThemPreprint

Deperrois, N., Petrovici, M. A., Jordan, J., Huber, L. S., & Senn, W. (2024) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0684.v2 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Unravelling Repetitive Negative Thinking With Reinforcement LearningPreprint

Bedder, R. L., Hitchcock, P., & Sharp, P. B. (2024) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/cu46a · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reportsPreprint

Kane, M. J., Smeekens, B. A., Meier, M. E., Welhaf, M., & Phillips, N. (2020) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/te9yc_v1 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Integrated Overview of the Memory System

Sharma, I. D. (2021) · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · doi:10.22214/ijraset.2021.35690

Gare au burn-out de la rentrée !

Sylvie Chokron, A. (2021) · Cerveau & Psycho · doi:10.3917/cerpsy.136.0088

Why do we think? The dynamics of spontaneous thought reveal its functionsPreprint

Mildner, J. N., & Tamir, D. (2022) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/ufd4y

SUBJECTIVE ASPECT OF RESTING STATE: AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH METHODS

Бычкова, А. С., Андреевна, К. О., & Enikolopova, E. V. (2023) · Moscow University Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.11621/vsp.2023.01.09

Getting Personal: Brain Decoding of Spontaneous Thought Using Personal NarrativesPreprint

Kim, H. J., Lux, B. K., Finn, E. S., & Woo, C. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.05.12.540141

Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: investigating the links between tendency for exploration, attentional profile and the stream of thoughtsPreprint

Kérébel, A., Caille, J.-A., & Sackur, J. (2024) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/tghb7

How Rapid-Eye-Movement Dreams May Facilitate Learning and CreativityPreprint

Deperrois, N., Petrovici, M. A., Jordan, J., Huber, L. S., & Senn, W. (2024) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0684.v1

Are you thinking about friends or money? Spontaneous thought contents reveal the value of social relationships for happinessPreprint

Shin, W.-G., Ahn, J., Choe, K. W., Lee, H., Han, J.-H., Lee, E., Lux, B. K., Woo, C., Choi, I., & Sul, S. (2024) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/6y2fa

Spontaneous associative thought may facilitate scene-gist memory via implicit scene-labeling

Baror, S., Aminoff, E., & Kenett, Y. N. (2024) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-024-01672-y

Excluding spontaneous thought periods enhances functional connectivity test–retest reliability and machine learning performance in fMRI

Chang, Z., & Haifeng, L. (2026) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2025.1730402

Attention to Emotion and the Thought-Feeling Relationship: Evidence From a Stream of Consciousness Paradigm

Robinson, M. D., Fereidouni, H., Asad, M. R., & Irvin, R. L. (2026) · Personality Science · doi:10.1177/27000710261445288

What Do Happy People Think About? A New Paradigm for Assessing Self-Generated Thoughts in the Laboratory

Fereidouni, H., & Robinson, M. D. (2026) · Journal of Happiness Studies · doi:10.1007/s10902-026-01062-y

How do we think and what is the neural circuit mechanism for it? Possible roles of working memory and inner speech in thinking

Mori, K., & Sakano, H. (2026) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2026.1722790

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour

Ke, J., Chamberlain, T. A., Song, H., Corriveau, A., Zhang, Z., Martinez, T., Sams, L., Chun, M. M., Leong, Y. C., & Rosenberg, M. D. (2026) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02563-9

Music influences the content of spontaneous thought

Wu, W., Margulis, E. H., & Jakubowski, K. (2026) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106722

Why do we think? The dynamics of spontaneous thought reveal its functions

Mildner, J. N., & Tamir, D. (2024) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae230 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Episodic-semantic interactions in spontaneous thought

Jordão, M., & Jacques, P. L. S. (2021) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01211-z · Cited by 11 · see citing works

The Neuroscience of Spontaneous Thought

Andrews‐Hanna, J. R., Irving, Z. C., Fox, K. C. R., Spreng, R. N., & Kalina Christoff, A. (2018) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.33 · Cited by 60 · see citing works

Tracking the dynamics of the stream of thought reveals its function.

Corbani, F. E., Mildner, J. N., Bassett, D. S., & Tamir, D. (2025) · Technology Mind and Behavior · doi:10.1037/tmb0000171 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Neural dynamics of spontaneous memory recall and future thinking in the continuous flow of thoughts

Su, H., Li, X., Born, S., Honey, C. J., Chen, J., & Lee, H. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-61807-w · Cited by 14 · see citing works