The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff.
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- [2018]
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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xvi, 611 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
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Contents
Part I: Introduction and overview. Introduction: toward an interdisciplinary science of spontaneous thought / Kieran C.R. Fox and Kalina Christoff -- Part II: Theoretical perspectives. Why the mind wanders: how spontaneous thought's default variablity may support episodic efficiency and semantic optimization / Caitlin Mills, Arianne Herrera-Bennett, Myrthe Faber, and Kalina Christoff -- An exploration/exploitation trade-off between mind-wandering and goal-directed thinking / Chandra S. Sripada -- When the absence of reasoning breeds meaning: metacognitive appraisals of spontaneous thought / Carey K. Morewedge and Daniella M. Kupor -- The mind wanders with ease: low motivational intensity is an essential quality of mind-wandering / Dylan Stan and Kalina Christoff -- How does the brain's spontaneous activity generate our thoughts? The spatiotemporal theory of task-unrelated thoughts (STTT) / George Northoff -- Investigating the elements of thought: toward a component process account of spontaneous cognition / Jonathan Smallwood, Daniel Margulies, Boris C. Bernhardt, and Elizabeth Jefferies -- Part III: Philosophical, evolutionary, and historical perspectives. The philosophy of mind-wandering / Zachary C. Irving and Evan Thompson -- Why is mind-wandering interesting for philosophers? / Thomas Metzinger -- Spontaneity in evolution, learning, creativity, and free will: spontaneous variation in four selectionist phenomena / Dean Keith Simonton -- How does the waking and sleeping brain produce spontaneous thought and imagery, and why? / John S. Antrobus -- Spontaneous thinking in creative lives: building connections between science and history / Alex Soojung-Kim Pang -- Part IV: Mind-wandering and daydreaming. The neuroscience of spontaneous thought: an evolving interdisciplinary field / Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Zachary C. Irving, Kieran C.R. Fox, R. Nathan Spreng, and Kalina Christoff -- Neural origins of self-generated thought: insights from intracranial electrical stimulation and recordings in humans / Kieran C.R. Fox -- Mind-wandering and self-referential thought / Arnaud D'Argembeau -- Phenomenological properties of mind-wandering and daydreaming: a historical overview and functional correlates / David Stawarczyk -- Spontaneous thought and goal pursuit: from functions such as planning to dysfunctions such as rumination / Eric Klinger, Igor Marchetti, and Ernst H.W. Koster -- Unraveling what's on our minds: how different types of mind-wandering affect cognition and behavior / Claire M. Zedelius and Jonathan W. Schooler -- Electrophysiological evidence for attentional decoupling during mind-wandering / Julia W.Y. Kam and Todd C. Handy -- Mind-wandering in educational settings / Jeffrey D. Wammes, Paul Seli, and Daniel Smilek -- Part V: Creativity and insight. Interacting brain networks underlying creative cognition and artistic performance / Roger E. Beaty and Rex E. Jung -- Spontaneous and controlled processes in creative cognition / Mathias Benedek and Emanuel Jauk -- Wandering and direction in creative production / Charles Dobson -- Flow as spontaneous thought: insight and implicit learning / John Vervaeke, Leo Ferraro, and Arianne Herrera-Bennett -- Internal orientation in aesthetic experience / Oshin Vartanian -- Neuropsychopharmacology of flexible and creative thinking / David Q. Beversdorf -- Part VI: Sleep, dreaming, and memory. Dreaming is an intensified form of mind-wandering, based in an augmented poritions of the default network / G. William Domhoff -- Neural correlates of self-generated imagery and cognition throughout the sleep cycle / Kieran C.R. Fox and Manesh Girn -- Spontaneous thought, insight, and control in lucid dreams / Jennifer M. Windt and Ursula Voss -- Microdream neurophenomenology: a paradigm for dream neuroscience / Tore Nielsen -- Sleep paralysis: phenomenology, neurophysiology, and treatment / Elizaveta Solomonova -- Dreaming and waking thought as a reflection of memory consolidation / Erin J. Wamsley -- Involuntary autobiographical memories: spontaneous recollections of the past / John H. Mace -- Part VII: Clinical contexts, contemplative traditions, and altered states of consciousness. Potential clinical benefits and risks of spontaneous thought: unconstrained attention as a way into and a way out of psychological disharmony / Dylan Stan and Kalina Christoff -- Candidate mechanisms of spontaneous cognition as revealed by dementia syndromes / Claire O'Callaghan and Muireann Irish -- Rumination is a sticky form of spontaneous thought / Elizabeth DuPre and R. Nathan Spring -- Pain and spontaneous thought / Aaron Kucyi -- Spontaneous thought in contemplative traditions / Halvor Eifring -- Catching the wandering mind: meditation as a window into spontaneous thought / Wendy Hasenkamp -- Spontaneous mental experiences in extreme and unusual environments / Peter Suedfeld, A. Dennis Rank, and Marek Malius -- Cultural neurophenomenology of psychedelic thought: guiding the "Unconstrained" mind through ritual context / Michael Lifshitz, Eli Oda Sheiner, and Laurence J. Kirmayer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status Medical CollectionBF441 2018O98Open shelves
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- 9780190464745
- 0190464747