A core goal in cognitive neuroscience is identifying the physical substrates of the patterns of
thought that occupy our daily lives. Contemporary views suggest that the landscape of …

Mindfulness training (MT) is a form of mental training in which individuals engage in
exercises to cultivate an attentive, present centered, and non-reactive mental mode. The …

Individuals with greater cognitive abilities generally show reduced rates of mind-wandering
when completing relatively demanding tasks (Randall, Oswald, & Beier, 2014). However, it …

The influx of technology into the classroom presents a serious challenge for educators and
researchers. One of the greatest challenges is to better understand, given our knowledge of …

Increasing research efforts are focused on explaining the cognitive bases of creativity.
However, it remains unclear when and how cognitive factors such as intelligence and …

Recent research suggests that prospective and non-prospective forms of mind-wandering
possess distinct properties, yet little is known about what exactly differentiates between …

Mind wandering during ongoing tasks can impede task performance and increase the risk of
failure in the laboratory as well as in daily‐life tasks and work environments. Neurocognitive …

Following an emotional experience, individuals are confronted with the persistence of
ruminative thoughts that disturb the undertaking of other activities. In the present study, we …

Here we test the hypothesis that fluctuations in subjective reports of mind wandering over
time-on-task are associated with fluctuations in performance over time-on-task. In Study 1 …

The capacity to self-generate mental content that is unrelated to the current environment is a
fundamental characteristic of the mind, and the current experiment explored how this …