Default positions: how neuroscience’s historical legacy has hampered investigation of the resting mind

The puzzle of the brain and mind at rest – their so-called default state – is strongly influenced by the historical precedents that led to its emergence as a scientific question. What eventually became the default mode network (DMN) was inaugurated via meta-analysis to explain the observation that...

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Main Authors: Felicity eCallard, Jonathan eSmallwood, Daniel S Margulies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00321/full