There is a growing recognition that thoughts often arise independently of external demands.
These thoughts can span from reminiscing your last vacation to contemplating career goals …

Three broad organizing strategies have been used to study meditation practices:(1) consider
meditation practices as using similar processes and so combine neural images across a …

Much of our knowledge about the correlates of mind-wandering comes from assessing task-
unrelated thought. Less is known about the correlates of freely moving thought, a dimension …

Despite much research into the development of attention in adolescence, mixed results and
between-task differences have precluded clear conclusions regarding the relative early or …

The natural tendency of the mind to wander (ie, mind wandering), is often connected to
negative thoughts and emotional states. On the other hand, mindfulness (ie, the ability to …

Listening to self-selected background music has been shown to be associated with
increased task focus and decreased mind wandering during a sustained attention task (Kiss …

Commonly used to characterize mind wandering, task-unrelated thought has long been
associated with negative affective outcomes. However, less is known about how other …

Attention represents a key element of self-control, and multiple theoretical accounts have
highlighted the role played by abundant attentional capacity in effecting successful self …

Across two online experiments, this study explored the effect of preferred background music
on attentional state and performance, as well as on mood and arousal, during a vigilance …

Introduction Over the last decade, excessive spontaneous mind wandering (MW) has been
consistently associated with emotional disorders. The main aims of the present study were …