The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C.R. Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christoff, Kalina, editor.

Fox, Kieran C. R., editor.

Series:

Oxford library of psychology

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in psychology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative thinking.

Thought and thinking.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Spontaneous thought

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers, "from the mind" or "from the brain," are in fact an incredibly recent, modern understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts-especially the most sudden, insightful, and important-were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Scientific understanding of spontaneous thought has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent years, but big questions still loom: What, exactly, is spontaneous thought? How does the human brain generate, elaborate, and evaluate its own spontaneous creations? And why do spontaneous thoughts feature so prominently in mental life? This volume brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice.

Contents:

Neural Origins of Self-Generated Cognition: Insights from Intracranial Electrical Stimulation and Recordings in Humans / Kieran C.R. Fox

Interacting Brain Networks Underlying Creative Cognition and Artistic Performance / Roger E. Beaty, Rex E. Jung

Microdream neurophenomenology: A paradigm for dream neuroscience / Tore A. Nielsen

Catching the Wandering Mind: Meditation as a Window into Spontaneous Thought / Wendy Hasenkamp

Mind-wandering and events in the external world: Electrophysiological evidence for attentional / Julia W.Y. Kam, Todd C. Handy

Mind-wandering and self-referential thought / Arnaud D'Argembeau

Mind-wandering in educational settings / Jeffrey D. Wammes, Paul Seli, Daniel Smilek

Neural Correlates of Self-Generated Imagery and Cognition Throughout the Sleep Cycle / Kieran C.R. Fox, Manesh Girn

Internal Orientation in Aesthetic Experience / Oshin Vartanian

Phenomenological Properites of Mind-Wandering and Daydreaming: A Historical Overview and Functional Correlates / David Stawarczyk

The Philosophy of Mind-Wandering / Zachary C. Irving, Evan Thompson

The Mind Wanders with Ease: Low Motivational Intensity is an Essential Quality of Mind-Wandering / Dylan Stan, Kalina Christoff

Sleep paralysis: Phenomenology, Neurophysiology, and Treatment / Elizaveta Solomonova

Spontaneity in Evolution, Learning, Creativity, and Free Will: Spontaneous Variation in Four Selectionist Phenomena / Dean Keith Simonton

Spontaneous and controlled processes in creative cognition / Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk

Dreaming and Waking Thought as a Reflection of Memory Consolidation / Erin J. Wamsley

Spontaneous thought and goal pursuit: From functions such as planning to dysfunctions such as rumination / Eric Klinger, Ernst H.W. Koster, Igor Marchetti

Spontaneous Thinking in Creative Lives: Building Connections Between Science and History / Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Spontaneous thought, insight, and control in lucid dreams / Jennifer M. Windt, Ursula Voss

An Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff Between Mind-Wandering and Goal-Directed Thinking / Chandra S. Sripada

Unraveling What's On Our Minds: How Different Types of Mind-Wandering Affect Cognition and Behavior / Claire M. Zedelius, Jonathan W. Schooler

Spontaneous thought in contemplative traditions / Halvor Eifring

Wandering and Direction in Creative Production / Charles Dobson

Why is spontaneous thought interesting for philosophers? / Thomas Metzinger

Functional neuroanatomy of spontaneous thought / Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Zachary C. Irving, Kieran C.R. Fox, R. Nathan Spreng, Kalina Christoff

Investigating the elements of thought: Towards a component process account of spontaneous cognition / Jonathan Smallwood, Daniel S. Margulies, Boris C. Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jeffries

Spontaneous Mental Experiences in Extreme and Unusual Environments / Peter Suedfeld, A. Dennis Rank, Marek Malůš

How Does the Waking and Sleeping Brain Produce Spontaneous Thought and Imagery, and Why? / John S. Antrobus

Involuntary Autobiographical Memories: Spontaneous Recollections of the Past / John H. Mace

Neuropsychopharmacology of Flexible and Creative Thinking / David Q. Beversdorf

Cultural neurophenomenology of psychedelic thought: Guiding the "unconstrained" mind through ritual and context / Michael Lifshitz, Eli Sheiner, Laurence J. Kirmayer

Pain and Spontaneous Thought / Aaron Kucyi

When the Absence of Reasoning Breeds Meaning: Metacognitive Appraisals of Spontaneous Thought / Carey K. Morewedge, Daniella M. Kupor

Why the Mind Wanders: How Spontaneous Thought's Default Variability May Support Episodic Efficiency and Semantic Optimization / Caitlin Mills, Arianne Herrera-Bennett, Myrthe Faber, Kalina Christoff

Introduction: Toward an Interdisciplinary Science of Spontaneous Thought / Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff

Potential Clinical Benefits and Risks of Spontaneous Thought: Unconstrained Attention as a Way Into and a Way Out of Psychological Disharmony / Dylan Stan, Kalina Christoff

Rumination is a Sticky Form of Spontaneous Thought / Elizabeth DuPre, R. Nathan Spreng

Candidate Mechanisms of Spontaneous Cognition as Revealed By Dementia Syndromes / Claire O'Callaghan, Muireann Irish

Dreaming is an intensified form of mind-wandering, based in augmented portions of the default network / G. William Domhoff

Flow as spontaneous thought: Insight and implicit learning / John Vervaeke, Leo Ferraro, Arianne Herrera-Bennett

How does the brain's spontaneous activity generate our thoughts? The spatiotemporal theory of task-unrelated thought (STTT) / Georg Northoff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780190464776

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