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spontaneous thought: a standalone construct

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Cognitive neuroscience

thought that arises and unfolds with relatively little deliberate or automatic constraint, of which mind-wandering is one kind.

In cognitive neuroscience, spontaneous thought refers to thought that arises and unfolds with relatively little deliberate or automatic constraint, of which mind-wandering is one kind. This meaning comes from Christoff (2016) in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.[1]

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  1. Christoff, K., Irving, Z. C., Fox, K. C. R., Spreng, R. N., & Andrews-Hanna, J. R. (2016). Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17(11), 718-731. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.113

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