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The brain's default network and its adaptive role in internal mentation
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During the many idle moments that comprise daily life, the human brain increases its activity across a set of midline and lateral cortical brain regions known as the “default network.” Despite the robustness with which the brain defaults to this pattern of activity, surprisingly little is known about the network’s precise anatomical organization and adaptive functions. To provide insight into these questions, this article synthesizes recent literature from structural and functional imaging with a growing behavioral literature on mind wandering. Results characterize the default network as a set of interacting hubs and subsystems that play an important role in “internal mentation”—the introspective and adaptive mental activities in which humans spontaneously and deliberately engage in every day.
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“The DMN has also been shown to be involved with self-referential processing, e.g., relating (external) information to the self (51) and retrieval of memories (52, 53).”
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“Default network activity is associated with spontaneous and self-generated thought, including mind-wandering, mental simulation, social cognition, autobiographical retrieval, and episodic future thinking [5, 13–14].”
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“Such work points to an important role of the inferior prefrontal cortex—regions associated with controlled memory retrieval (Badre & Wagner, 2007) and central executive processes (Aron, 2007)—and the default mode network—regions associated with internally-directed attention and spontaneous cognition (Andrews-Hanna, 2012).”
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“Default network activity is associated with a wide range of imaginative processes, such as mind wandering (Andrews-Hanna, 2012, Christoff et al., 2009), mental simulation (Hassabis & Maguire, 2007), and episodic future thinking (Schacter et al., 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Andrews-Hanna, J. R.
- Affiliations
- Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Venue
- The Neuroscientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-06-15
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 251-270
- ISSN
- 1073-8584 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4098
- PMC
- PMC3553600
- OpenAlex
- W2152160545
- Cited by
- 1,114
- References
- 164
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- FWCI
- 20.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Neuroscientist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH079485, F32MH093985)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- default mode network, mind wandering, self-reflection, spontaneous thought, network hubs, lateral cortex
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Brain, Humans, Mental Processes, Nerve Net, Psychophysiology, Executive Function
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