Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports

MJ Kane, BA Smeekens, ME Meier, MS Welhaf… - Behavior Research …, 2021 - Springer
Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The
present study explored the construct validity of probed mind-wandering reports (ie, reports of …

Thought dynamics under task demands: Evaluating the influence of task difficulty on unconstrained thought.

NP Brosowsky, S Murray, JW Schooler… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
As research on mind wandering has accelerated, the construct's defining features have
expanded and researchers have begun to examine different dimensions of mind wandering …

Refixation patterns of mind-wandering during real-world scene perception.

H Zhang, NC Anderson, KF Miller - Journal of experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent studies have shown that mind-wandering (MW) is associated with changes in eye
movement parameters, but have not explored how MW affects the sequential pattern of eye …

Elucidating the difference between mind-wandering and day-dreaming terms

H Shimoni, V Axelrod - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Self-generated thoughts have been widely investigated in recent years, while the terms
“mind-wandering” and “day-dreaming” are usually used interchangeably. But are these …

Estimating the true cost of garden pathing: A computational model of latent cognitive processes

D Paape, S Vasishth - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
What is the processing cost of being garden‐pathed by a temporary syntactic ambiguity? We
argue that comparing average reading times in garden‐path versus non‐garden‐path …

[PDF][PDF] Do eye movements reflect readers' thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements

D Méziere, JK Kaakinen, E Ranta, K Kukkonen… - Manuscript in …, 2024 - osf.io
While reading narrative texts, the reader's thoughts and attention often fluctuate from
thoughts related to the content of the text (eg, immersion into the story world), to thoughts …

How does mind-wandering affect distractor suppression?

H Zhang, KF Miller, J Jonides - Visual Cognition, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The current study examined whether the suppression of overt attention to a salient distractor
requires attentional resources. In a feature-search task, participants searched for a constant …

The benefits of mind wandering on a naturalistic prospective memory task

JC Girardeau, R Ledru, A Gaston-Bellegarde… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Mind wandering (MW) occurs when our attention spontaneously shifts from the task at hand
to inner thoughts. MW is often future-oriented and may help people remember to carry out …

The development of educational neuroscience research and practice in Ireland

M Flynn, O Wynne, A Graham, T McCormack, J Senior… - 2025 - pure.qub.ac.uk
White Paper exploring mind-wandering in early classroom settings from an all-island
perspective, published on PublicPolicy. ie, part of the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy …

Too depleted to comprehend: resource depletion impairs situation model comprehension

AL Christofalos, FS Pambuccian… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present study was to examine how cognitive resource depletion impacts
reading comprehension. Participants completed either a simple ty** task (control …