Durantin, Gautier and Dehais, Frédéric and Delorme, Arnaud Characterization of mind wandering using fNIRS. (2015) Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 9. 1-7. ISSN 1662-5137
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00045
Abstract
Assessing whether someone is attending to a task has become important for educational and professional applications. Such attentional drifts are usually termed mind wandering (MW). The purpose of the current study is to test to what extent a recent neural imaging modality can be used to detect MW episodes. Functional near infrared spectroscopy is a non-invasive neuroimaging technique that has never been used so far to measure MW. We used the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) to assess when subjects attention leaves a primary task. Sixteen-channel fNIRS data were collected over frontal cortices. We observed significant activations over the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) during MW, a brain region associated with the default mode network (DMN). fNIRS data were used to classify MW data above chance level. In line with previous brain-imaging studies, our results confirm the ability of fNIRS to detect Default Network activations in the context of MW.
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UPS (FRANCE) |
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Funders: | PRES MIDI PYRENEES |
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Deposited By: | Frédéric Dehais |
Deposited On: | 10 Apr 2015 08:48 |
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