Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

TL;DR: Whether and how imagination relates to mind wandering and whether they depend on similar brain mechanisms is discussed and it appears that such an integrative process is likely to depend on a highly dynamical DMN, one that cannot be reduced simply to a resting state or self-related network.

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of cognitive learning styles on how middle school students internalize and comprehend graphic novels using a qualitative approach using student survey data, class assignments, interview responses, and focus group transcriptions in an effort to describe students perceptions of using graphic novels in a social-studies setting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first empirical examination of mechanisms by which confiding diverse real-world secrets to known others predicts well-being, and they find that confiding secrets relates to well being.

TL;DR: A baseline state of the normal adult human brain in terms of the brain oxygen extraction fraction or OEF is identified, suggesting the existence of an organized, baseline default mode of brain function that is suspended during specific goal-directed behaviors.

TL;DR: Past observations are synthesized to provide strong evidence that the default network is a specific, anatomically defined brain system preferentially active when individuals are not focused on the external environment, and for understanding mental disorders including autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: It is suggested that both task-driven neuronal responses and behavior are reflections of this dynamic, ongoing, functional organization of the brain, featuring the presence of anticorrelated networks in the absence of overt task performance.