Similarities and differences between the various kinds ofspontaneous conscious experiences and thoughts that can occur during attentional tasks (i.e., being fully focused on-task, task-related interferences, mind-wandering, and distractions by interoceptive sensations or exteroceptive perceptions) in terms of their relationships with cognitive performance, drowsiness, affective states, everyday event structure, and psychological well-being.
Neural substrates of attentional states and spontaneous thoughts during task-performance and their relationships with activity in the brain’s default mode and other major cerebral networks (e.g., the dorsal attention and fronto-parietal control network).
Relationships between the occurrence as well as content of future-oriented mind-wandering and the cognitive and neural representations of personal goals and self-related processes.
How the neural correlates of memory for real-life events and cognitive processes involved in time compression are related to everyday event structure.
Effects of aging on the ability to reinstate brain activity patterns elicited by movies of everyday activities and how it relates to event comprehension.
