To bridge the related but separate areas of research on mind-wandering and Involuntary Autobiographical Memory (IAM), the frequency and temporal focus of task unrelated thoughts about past, present, and future was compared in 19 dysphoric and 21 non-dysphoric participants, using a modified laboratory method for studying IAMs. Participants were stopped 11 times during a 15-minute vigilance task ...

821 As a medical doctor, I had started my carrier in the field of internal medicine, but subsequently I spent most of my professional life working as a biomedical researcher. Moreover, a huge majority of my scientific activities have taken place abroad. Still, I have always been closely collaborating with renowned Polish researchers. In addition, my scientific work involved not only pure labora...

In his commentary, David Galin raises several important issues that deserve to be addressed. In this response, I do three things. First, I briefly discuss the relation between the present work and the metaphoric theories of thought developed by cognitive lin- guists such as Lakoff and Johnson (1998). Second, I address some of the confusions that seem to have arisen about my use of the terms "su...