Spontaneous, uninduced mind-blanking
Description: Mind-blanking (MB) is the impression of having no thought, a brief moment in our mental life where we are unable to recover any mental content. Previous research has examined the neural correlates of top-down, evoked MB, as people tried to empty their thoughts. Here, we examine how MB occurs spontaneously during ongoing mentation, as people are left to let their minds wander. For this purpose, we used fMRI-based experience-sampling data in typical healthy individuals (Van Calster et al, 2017) in order to: 1. examine whole-brain correlates of spontaneous MB occurrences 2. determine whether previously reported MB correlates in self-induced MB match those of spontaneous MB.
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