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.
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Faber, M. (2020, June 19). Mind wandering as data augmentation: How mental travel supports abstraction. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. NLM (Medline). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900311X
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