Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed a surge of interest in investigating the neural
correlates of the mind when it drifts away from an ongoing task and the external …

Abstract People spend a remarkable 30–50% of their awake life thinking about something
other than what they are currently doing. These experiences of being 'off-task'can be …

Distraction reflects a drift of attention away from the task at hand towards task-irrelevant
external or internal information (mind-wandering). The right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) …

Vigilance—maintaining a prolonged state of preparation to detect and respond to specific
yet unpredictable environmental changes—usually decreases across prolonged tasks …

The application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the prefrontal cortex has
the potential to improve performance more than cognitive training alone. Such stimulation …

Mind wandering (MW) is a heterogeneous construct involving task-unrelated thoughts.
Recently, the interest in modulating MW propensity via non-invasive brain stimulation …

Abstract Background and Aims Mind wandering refers to spontaneously occurring, often
disruptive thoughts during an ongoing task or resting state. The ventromedial prefrontal …

There is conflicting evidence over the ability to modulate mind-wandering propensity with
anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal …

Background Decrements in performance and the propensity for increased mind-wandering
(ie, task-unrelated thoughts) across time-on-task are two pervasive phenomena observed …

Blinding in non-invasive brain stimulation research is a topic of intense debate, especially
regarding the efficacy of sham-controlled methods for transcranial direct current stimulation …