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Investigating Multiple Streams of Consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to Explore Internally and Externally Directed Streams of Thought

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العنوان: Investigating Multiple Streams of Consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to Explore Internally and Externally Directed Streams of Thought
المؤلفون: Charles Fernyhough, Ben Alderson-Day, Russell T. Hurlburt, Simone Kühn
المصدر: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 12 (2018)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: resting state, fMRI, default mode network, frontal-parietal network, dorsal attention network, stimulus-independent thought, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: Research into resting-state cognition has often struggled with the challenge of assessing inner experience in the resting state. We employed Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), a method aimed at generating detailed and high-fidelity descriptions of experience, to investigate how experience in the resting state can vary between internal, external, and multiple simultaneous streams. Using a large body of experiential and brain activation data acquired from five DES participants, independent raters classified sampled moments of experience according to whether they were internally directed, externally directed, or contained elements of both at the same time. In line with existing models, comparison of internal with external experience samples identified a network of regions associated with the default mode network. Regions of interest resulting from the whole-brain contrasts successfully predicted independent raters’ forced-choice categorizations of samples for which experience had a simultaneous internal and external focus. The present study is distinctive in tying neural activations in the resting state to detailed descriptions of specific phenomenology, and in demonstrating how the DES method enables a particularly nuanced analysis of moments of experience, especially their ability simultaneously to incorporate both an internal and an external focus. The study represents an integration of rich phenomenology and characterizations of brain activity, tracing interpretive paths from phenomenology to neural activation and vice versa.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1662-5161
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00494/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00494
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/93f5f57030f0462587dda296515d2115
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.93f5f57030f0462587dda296515d2115
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:16625161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2018.00494