experience an ongoing state of conscious awareness filled with “stimulus-independent thoughts” (SITs; Antrobus, 1968) or more commonly, day dreaming or mind wandering (Mason et al., 2007). Internal thoughts, self-awareness and rumination commonly dominate the resting state as opposed to active task engagement (Sridharan et al., 2009; Raichle, 2010). The right hemisphere exhibited longer phase lock durations than the left hemisphere (see Table 4) which is consistent with the findings of lower packing density in the right hemisphere in comparison to the left, especially in the planum temporale (Gur et al., 1980; Buchell et al., 2004).
