Task-negative network

"The default network is a network of brain regions that are active when the individual is not focused on the outside world and the brain is at wakeful rest. Also called the default mode network (DMN), default state network, or task-negative network (TNN), it is characterized by coherent neuronal oscillations at a rate lower than 0.1 Hz (one every ten seconds). During goal-oriented activity, the DMN is deactivated and another network, the task-positive network (TPN) is activated. It is thought that the default network corresponds to task-independent introspection, or self-referential thought, while the TPN corresponds to action, and that perhaps the TNN and TPN may be "considered elements of a single default network with anti-correlated components".
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Collection of abstracts from PubMed :</sup>

• Neural correlates of ongoing conscious experience: both task-unrelatedness and stimulus-independence are related to default network activity.
• Resting-state functional connectivity reflects structural connectivity in the default mode network.
• White matter microstructure underlying default mode network connectivity in the human brain.
• The influence of rest period instructions on the default mode network.
• Functional connectivity hubs in the human brain.
• Association between Functional Connectivity Hubs and Brain Networks.
  (Seven networks covering 80% of the gray matter volume were identified. Seven as the chakras?!)
• Resting-state networks in awake five- to eight-year old children
• Influence of age on the dynamics of fMRI activations during a semantic fluency task