The stream of thought can flow freely, without much guidance from attention or cognitive
control. What determines what we think about from one moment to the next? Spontaneous …

The neuroscience of mind-wandering has begun to flourish, with roles of brain regions and
networks being defined for various components of spontaneous thought. However, most of …

Anticorrelation between the default network (DN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) is
thought to be an intrinsic aspect of functional brain organization reflecting competing …

Intracranial electrical stimulation (iES) of the human brain has long been known to elicit a
remarkable variety of perceptual, motor and cognitive effects, but the functional–anatomical …

Subjective inner experiences, such as mind-wandering, represent the fundaments of human
cognition. Although the precise function of mind-wandering is still debated, it is increasingly …

G. William Domhoff presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams in his book The
Emergence of Dreaming. His theory stresses the similarities between dreaming and drifting …

Despite increasing scientific interest in self‐generated thought—mental content largely
independent of the immediate environment—there has yet to be any comprehensive …

Creative thinking is understood via a dual-process model involving the generation of
creative ideas followed by their subsequent evaluation and refinement. Creative products …

By recording neural activity directly from the human brain, researchers gain unprecedented
insight into how neurocognitive processes unfold in real time. We first briefly discuss how …

How do thoughts arise, unfold, and change over time? Are the contents and dynamics of
everyday thought rooted in conceptual associations within one's semantic networks? To …