Stimulating minds to wander
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Stimulating minds to wander.
Springing from memory and imagination, mind wandering is a mental state occupying as much as half of our waking life, involving a shift of attention away from the external environment and toward task-unrelated concerns (1). Although mind wandering may play an important role in planning and creativity (2, 3), it is also widely associated with negative mood and degraded performance on measures of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503093112