Mind Wandering – ESC Research

The Awakening of the Attention: Evidence for a Link Between the Monitoring of Mind Wandering and Prospective Goals

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 431-443 Abstract “Across 2 independent samples, we examined the relation between individual differences in rates of self-caught mind wandering and individual differences in temporal monitoring of an unrelated response goal. Rates of self-caught mind wandering were assessed during a commonly used sustained-attention task, and temporal […]

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Intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering: Are they one and the same, or distinct dimensions?

Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1808-1818 Abstract “Researchers have recently demonstrated that mind-wandering episodes can vary on numerous dimensions, and it has been suggested that assessing these dimensions will play an important role in our understanding of mind wandering. One dimension that has received considerable attention in recent work