Response to Comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought"

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Science 6 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5834, p. 43
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141078

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Response to Comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought"

Malia F. Mason¹^*, Michael I. Norton², John D. Van Horn³, Daniel M. Wegner⁴, Scott T. Grafton⁵ and C. Neil Macrae⁶

¹ Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
² Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02163, USA.
³ Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
⁶ School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, Scotland.

Fig. 1. Classification of thoughts participants reported (in postscan interviews) experiencing during fixation in (3). SOT, attending toward the external environment (e.g., anticipating the onset of the task, listening to the sound of the scanner); SIT(future), planning of future events (e.g., weekend plans); SIT(past), reflections on past events; SIT(unspecified), imprecise reports of SIT (e.g., "I mind-wandered"); bodily state, thoughts about one's physical state (e.g., feeling tired, hungry). [View Larger Version of this Image (36K GIF file)]