Recent advancements in neuroscience have unveiled new insights into the neural processes responsible for self-referential cognition. This research has brought particular attention to a critical neural ...

What Is the Default Mode Network? The default mode network is a system of connected brain areas that show increased activity when a person is not focused on what is happening around them. The DMN is ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a constellation of midline and lateral brain regions that consistently co-activate during internally directed cognition, such as autobiographical memory retrieval, ...

When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.