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K1: Your Wandering Mind: Neuronal Correlates and Behavioral Consequences

Author(s) -

John H. R. Maunsell

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

i-perception

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 2041-6695

DOI - 10.1068/if563

Subject(s) - mind wandering , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , psychology , neuroscience , focus (optics) , affect (linguistics) , visual cortex , control (management) , computer science , communication , cognition , artificial intelligence , physics , management , optics , economics

No matter how hard we focus on a task, we cannot prevent our attention from wandering. By recording simultaneously from dozens of neurons in visual cerebral cortex, it is now possible to obtain a nearly instantaneous measure of how visual attention is allocated. This approach is providing new insights into the mechanisms that control attention to locations and features, and how short-term drifts in attention affect behavioral performance

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