Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

The past decade has seen a surge of research examining mind-wandering, but most of this
research has not considered the potential importance of distinguishing between intentional …

Staying attentive is challenging enough when carrying out everyday tasks, such as reading
or sitting through a lecture, and failures to do so can be frustrating and inconvenient …

De multiples preuves suggèrent que, typiquement, la rêverie nuit de façon importante au
rendement. Des lacunes dans le rendement attribuables à la rêverie ont été observées dans …

In the past decade, a new field has formed to investigate the concept of mind-wandering, or
task-unrelated thought. The state of mind-wandering is typically contrasted with being on …

When environments lack compelling goals, humans often let their minds wander to thoughts
with greater personal relevance; however, we currently do not understand how this context …

The waking mind is often occupied with mental contents that are minimally constrained by
events in the here and now. These self-generated thoughts—eg, mind-wandering or …

The current study examined the extent to which pupillary responses (both pretrial baseline
and phasic responses) would accurately track lapses of attention as predicted by theories of …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Mind-wandering is the focus of extensive investigation, yet until recently there has been no
validated scale to directly measure trait levels of task-unrelated thought. Scales commonly …