| Keyword | Number of studies with the keyword | Relevant Component(s)* | Rationale |
| “thinking” | 110 | Component 1 | Thinking is the generation of thoughts. |
| “autobiographical” | 108 | Component 1, 2 | Thinking of autobiographical information should involve thought generator and representations of self. |
| “self-referential” | 127 | Component 1, 2 | Self-referential thoughts should involve thought generator and representations of self as proximal objects. |
| “retrieval” | 730 | Component 1, 2 | Retrieval is technically related to thinking of long-term memory and holding it with immediate presence as proximal objects. |
| “social cognition” | 166 | Component 1, 3 | Social cognition is typically related to perceiving and thinking of someone else as distal objects. |
| “mentalizing” | 124 | Component 1, 3 | Mentalizing refers to imagining another person’s cognitive and emotional states, thus involving thinking of distal objects. |
| “beliefs” | 58 | Component 1, 3 | Beliefs is technically related to holding a belief that is not factual or imagining someone else’s beliefs, thus involving thinking of distal objects. |
| “emotion” | 790 | Component 4 | Emotion is closely related to affective potentials. |
| “reward” | 671 | Component 4 | Reward is affective in terms of anticipatory or consummatory feelings of satisfying homeostatic needs. |
| “fear” | 298 | Component 4 | Fear is affective in terms of anticipatory or consummatory feelings of avoiding harms. |
| “conflict” | 273 | Component 5 | Conflict is technically related to conflicts between two alternative motor responses. |
| “monitoring” | 376 | Component 5 | Monitoring is technically related to monitoring conflicts and ongoing information. |