{"id":179107,"date":"2023-12-25T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-suggests-that-the-neural-correlates-of-mind-wandering-can-vary-across-different-tasks"},"modified":"2023-12-25T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T19:40:10","slug":"study-suggests-that-the-neural-correlates-of-mind-wandering-can-vary-across-different-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-suggests-that-the-neural-correlates-of-mind-wandering-can-vary-across-different-tasks","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests that the neural correlates of mind-wandering can vary across different tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-suggests-that-the-neural-correlates-of-mind-wandering-can-vary-across-different-tasks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The data collected by this research team confirms that mind-wandering is associated with an increase in alpha oscillations, which was also reported in previous works.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When humans are completing a specific task, their minds can shift from what they are doing to their own internal thoughts. This shift of attention from a task to internal events, known as off-task thinking or mind-wandering, is well-documented and has been studied extensively in the past.<\/p>\n<p>A research question that remains unanswered is whether mind-wandering should be considered an adaptive\/beneficial or maladaptive\/undesirable process. Depending on the circumstances in which it occurs, in fact, this process could distract a person from an important task they are trying to complete or shift their attention onto something equally or more important for them.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the thoughts onto which the attention shifts could be unimportant and distracting, or more applicable to the goals that are personally relevant to a specific person. Some psychology researchers have also proposed that intentional mind-wandering is more adaptive, as it entails the deliberate control of one\u2019s attention, while spontaneous mind-wandering is maladaptive, as it entails failing to control one\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data collected by this research team confirms that mind-wandering is associated with an increase in alpha oscillations, which was also reported in previous works. When humans are completing a specific task, their minds can shift from what they are doing to their own internal thoughts. This shift of attention from a task to internal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}