TY - JOUR
T1 - Mind wandering as data augmentation
T2 - How mental travel supports abstraction
AU - Faber, Myrthe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2020/6/19
Y1 - 2020/6/19
N2 - Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.
AB - Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.
KW - Brain
KW - Thinking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086832367&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X1900311X
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X1900311X
M3 - Article
C2 - 32645791
SN - 1469-1825
VL - 43
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e130
ER -