Distinguishing how from why the mind wanders: a process-occurrence framework for self-generated mental activity.

@article{Smallwood2013DistinguishingHF,
  title={Distinguishing how from why the mind wanders: a process-occurrence framework for self-generated mental activity.},
  author={Jonathan Smallwood},
  journal={Psychological bulletin},
  year={2013},
  volume={139 3},
  pages={
          519-535
        }
}
  • J. Smallwood
  • Published 1 May 2013
  • Psychology
  • Psychological bulletin
Cognition can unfold with little regard to the events taking place in the environment, and such self-generated mental activity poses a specific set of challenges for its scientific analysis in both cognitive science and neuroscience. One problem is that the spontaneous onset of self-generated mental activity makes it hard to distinguish the events that control the occurrence of the experience from those processes that ensure the continuity of an internal train of thought once initiated. This… 
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