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Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation

2021-05-11

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Mind blanking (MB) is a waking state during which we do not report any mental content, challenging the view of a constantly thought-oriented brain. Here, we comprehensively characterize the MB’s neurobehavioral profile with the aim to delineate its role during ongoing mentation. Using fMRI experience-sampling, we show that MB is reported less frequently, faster, and with low transitional dynamics among other menta...

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Literature Corpus work: 12e4ad06-839c-5adf-ab05-890f0323c064
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.10.443428

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