Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation

Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Fund for Scientific Research FNRS, Brussels, Belgium Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium GIGA-Cyclotron Research Center In Vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Department of Psychology, CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece Institute of Bioengineering, Êcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland