Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning

NP Brosowsky, S Murray, JW Schooler, P Seli - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
According to the attentional resources account, mind wandering (or “task-unrelated thought”)
is thought to compete with a focal task for attentional resources. Here, we tested two key …

[HTML][HTML] Mind wandering during attention performance: Effects of ADHD-inattention symptomatology, negative mood, ruminative response style and working memory …

LM Jonkman, CR Markus, MS Franklin… - PLoS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective In adulthood, depressive mood is often comorbid with ADHD, but its role in ADHD-
inattentiveness and especially relations with mind wandering remains to be elucidated. This …

Pace yourself: Intraindividual variability in context use revealed by self-paced event-related brain potentials

BR Payne, KD Federmeier - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have revealed multiple mechanisms by which
contextual constraints impact language processing. At the same time, little work has …

Working memory capacity and intra-individual variability of proactive control

EA Wiemers, TS Redick - Acta psychologica, 2018 - Elsevier
Two datasets of 110 young adults were examined to investigate the relationship between
individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) and dynamic cognitive control …

[HTML][HTML] Reconceptualizing mind wandering from a switching perspective

YS Wong, AR Willoughby, L Machado - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
Mind wandering is a universal phenomenon in which our attention shifts away from the task
at hand toward task-unrelated thoughts. Despite it inherently involving a shift in mental set …

[HTML][HTML] The role of focus back effort in the relationships among motivation, interest, and mind wandering: an individual difference perspective

H He, Y Chen, T Li, H Li, X Zhang - Cognitive Research: Principles and …, 2023 - Springer
Considerable research suggests a link between mind wandering and diminished levels of
motivation and interest. During episodes of mind wandering, individuals may engage in …

Mind-wandering in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer's disease.

M Gyurkovics, DA Balota, JD Jackson - Neuropsychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The frequency of mind-wandering (MW) decreases as a function of age in healthy
individuals. One possible explanation is that MW is a resource-dependent process, and …

Individual differences in working memory capacity, attention control, fluid intelligence, and pupillary measures of arousal.

MK Robison, GA Brewer - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study examined individual differences in 3 cognitive abilities: attention control
(AC), working memory capacity (WMC), and fluid intelligence (gF) as they relate the …

Can research participants comment authoritatively on the validity of their self-reports of mind wandering and task engagement?

P Seli, TR Jonker, JA Cheyne, K Cortes… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The study of mind wandering rests upon the assumption that people are able to consistently
and accurately introspect and report on these sorts of mental experiences. Although there is …

[HTML][HTML] Abnormalities in hubs location and nodes centrality predict cognitive slowing and increased performance variability in first-episode schizophrenia patients

P Krukow, K Jonak, R Karpiński… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Introducing the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithms to neural networks
science eliminated the problem of arbitrary setting of the threshold for connectivity strength …