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Manipulating the temporal locus and content of mind-wandering

Alice Liefgreen, Marshall A. Dalton, Eleanor A. Maguire

Consciousness and Cognition, Volume: 79, Start page: 102885

Swansea University Author: Alice Liefgreen

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The human brain has a tendency to drift into the realm of internally-generated thoughts that are unbound by space and time. The term mind-wandering (MW) is often used describe such thoughts when they are perceptually decoupled. Evidence suggests that exposure to forward and backward illusory motion...

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ISSN: 1053-8100
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