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PLOS ONE
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152272
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- Templeton Science of Prospection Award
- BBSRC [BB/J006963/1]
- European Research Council [SEMBIND - 283530]
- Welcome Trust [103817/Z/14/Z]
- John Templeton Foundation
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J006963/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/J006963/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [103817/Z/14/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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When not engaged in the moment, we often spontaneously represent people, places and events that are not present in the environment. Although this capacity has been linked to the default mode network (DMN), it remains unclear how interactions between the nodes of this network give rise to particular mental experiences during spontaneous thought. One hypothesis is that the core of the DMN integrates information from medial and lateral temporal lobe memory systems, which represent different aspects of knowledge. Individual differences in the connectivity between temporal lobe regions and the default mode network core would then predict differences in the content and form of people's spontaneous thoughts. This study tested this hypothesis by examining the relationship between seed-based functional connectivity and the contents of spontaneous thought recorded in a laboratory study several days later. Variations in connectivity from both medial and lateral temporal lobe regions was associated with different patterns of spontaneous thought and these effects converged on an overlapping region in the posterior cingulate cortex. We propose that the posterior core of the DMN acts as a representational hub that integrates information represented in medial and lateral temporal lobe and this process is important in determining the content and form of spontaneous thought.
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