Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature Reviews Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2016-09-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/nrn.2016.113PMID 27654862
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