Functional dissociation of ventral frontal and dorsomedial default mode network components during resting state and emotional autobiographical recall
Human Brain Mapping November 6, 2013 Patrícia Bado, Annerose Engel, Ricardo de Oliveira‐souza et al. 49 citations
Mind-wandering, which occupies much of daily life, often involves autobiographical recall and self-reflection. Brain imaging shows that a set of regions called the default mode network (DMN) is active during such spontaneous thought, but the roles of different cognitive components within the DMN were unclear. Using fMRI, researchers compared brain activity during emotional autobiographical memory recall, neutral memory recall, and resting wakefulness, with a subtraction task as a control. Both emotional recall and resting state activated shared DMN regions compared to the control.