The Default Mode Network and the Problem of Determining Intrinsic Mental Contents

• Authors: Marek Havlík , Tomáš Marvan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We provide a brief overview of the shift toward the intrinsic view of brain activity, describing in particular the structural and functional connectivity patterns of the “Default mode network” (part I). We then consider the Default mode network in a specifically cognitive setting and ask what changes the focus on the Default mode network and other sorts of intrinsic activity require from models put forward by cognitive neuroscientists (part II).

Keywords

EN

default mode network; intrinsic mental contents; resting state networks; cognitive neuroscience; reactive paradigm in neuroscience

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 145-160

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-10

Contributors

author

Marek Havlík

• University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen

author

Tomáš Marvan

• University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2015-0008