New Paper from the Jha Lab Explores Links Between EEG Microstates and Spontaneous Thought.
Brief Summary:
We examined EEG microstates—brief, stable patterns of large-scale brain activity lasting tens to hundreds of milliseconds—to track spontaneous subjective experience during periods of rest. Participant reports of spontaneous thought varied substantially from one moment to the next. These moment-to-moment shifts were coupled with the dynamics of EEG microstates (including how microstates transition over time). This work allows us to move beyond treating “rest” as a single, static condition, (as is often done in fMRI studies), and instead offers a window into the brain’s dynamics at the timescale of our ever-shifting phenomenal experience.
