Absent without leave; a neuroenergetic theory of mind wandering

Absent minded people are not under the control of task-relevant stimuli. According to the Neuroenergetics Theory of attention (NeT), this lack of control is often due to fatigue of the relevant processing units in the brain caused by insufficient resupply of the neuron’s preferred fuel, lactate, fro...

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Main Author: Peter R Killeen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00373/full