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  1. Excessive daydreaming: A case history and discussion of mind wandering and high fantasy proneness.Cynthia Schupak & Jesse Rosenthal - 2009 - Consciousness and Cognition 18 (1):290-292.
    This case study describes a patient presenting with a long history of excessive daydreaming which has caused her distress but is not incident to any other apparent clinical psychiatric disorders. We have treated this patient for over 10 years, and she has responded favorably to fluvoxamine therapy, stating that it helps to control her daydreaming. Our patient, and other psychotherpists, have brought to our attention other possible cases of excessive daydreaming. We examine the available literature regarding daydreaming, mind wandering, and (...)
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  • Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures.James Allan Cheyne, Jonathan S. A. Carriere & Daniel Smilek - 2006 - Consciousness and Cognition 15 (3):578-592.
    A brief self-report scale was developed to assess everyday performance failures arising directly or primarily from brief failures of sustained attention . The ARCES was found to be associated with a more direct measure of propensity to attention lapses and to errors on an existing behavioral measure of sustained attention . Although the ARCES and MAAS were highly correlated, structural modelling revealed the ARCES was more directly related to SART errors and the MAAS to SART RTs, which have been hypothesized (...)
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  • Daydreaming as spontaneous immersive imagination: A phenomenological analysis.Emily Lawson & Evan Thompson - 2024 - Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 5 (1):1-34.
    Research on the specific features of daydreaming compared with mind-wandering and night dreaming is a neglected topic in the philosophy of mind and the cognitive neuroscience of spontaneous thought. The extant research either conflates daydreaming with mind-wandering (whether understood as task-unrelated thought, unguided attention, or disunified thought), characterizes daydreaming as opposed to mind-wandering (Dorsch, 2015), or takes daydreaming to encompass any and all “imagined events” (Newby-Clark & Thavendran, 2018). These dueling definitions obstruct future research on spontaneous thought, and are insufficiently (...)
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  • Vigilance and mind wandering.Samuel Murray - forthcoming - Mind and Language.
    Mind wandering is a pervasive feature of subjective experience. But why does the mind tend to wriggle about rather than always staying focused? To answer this question, this paper defends the claim that mind wandering consists in task-unrelated thought. Despite being the standard view of mind wandering in cognitive psychology, there has been no systematic elaboration or defense of the task-unrelated thought view of mind wandering. Here, I argue for the task-unrelated thought view by showing how mind wandering reflects a (...)
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  • Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning.Samuel Murray, Nicholaus Brosowsky, Jonathan Schooler & Paul Seli - 2021 - Cognition 209 (C):104530.
    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 predictions of this account: First, that mind wandering should not interfere with performance on a task that does not require attentional resources; second, that as task requirements become automatized, performance should improve and depth of mind wandering should increase. Here, we used a serial reaction time task with implicit- and explicit-learning groups to test (...)
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  • Who wrote that? Automaticity and reduced sense of agency in individuals prone to dissociative absorption.Noa Bregman-Hai, Yoav Kessler & Nirit Soffer-Dudek - 2020 - Consciousness and Cognition 78 (C):102861.
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  • Environmental and mental conditions predicting the experience of involuntary musical imagery: An experience sampling method study.Georgia A. Floridou & Daniel Müllensiefen - 2015 - Consciousness and Cognition 33:472-486.
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  • Compulsive fantasy: Proposed evidence of an under-reported syndrome through a systematic study of 90 self-identified non-normative fantasizers.Jayne Bigelsen & Cynthia Schupak - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1634-1648.
    The experiences of 90 individuals who self-identify as “excessive” or “maladaptive” fantasizers are summarized in this report. Our sample consisted of 75 female and 15 male participants, ranging in age from 18 to 63 who responded to online announcements. Participants completed a 14-question emailed survey requesting descriptions of their fantasy habits and causes of potential distress regarding fantasy. Results demonstrated that participants shared a number of remarkably specific behaviors and concerns regarding their engagement in extensive periods of highly-structured, immersive imaginative (...)
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  • Natural disaster induced cognitive disruption: Impacts on action slips.William S. Helton, James Head & Simon Kemp - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1732-1737.
    Previous research has indicated an increase in stress levels and cognitive intrusions after natural disasters. These previous studies have not, however, assessed the impact disaster induced cognitive disruption has on human performance. In the present report, we investigated the impact of the 7.1 magnitude 2010 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake on self-reported earthquake-induced cognitive disruption and its relationship to performance on the Sustained Attention to Response Task . Participants who self-reported greater cognitive disruption induced by the earthquake also had higher levels (...)
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  • Your mind wanders weakly, your mind wanders deeply: Objective measures reveal mindless reading at different levels.Daniel J. Schad, Antje Nuthmann & Ralf Engbert - 2012 - Cognition 125 (2):179-194.
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  • Children with positive attitudes towards mind-wandering provide invalid subjective reports of mind-wandering during an experimental task.Yi Zhang, Xiaolan Song, Qun Ye & Qinqin Wang - 2015 - Consciousness and Cognition 35:136-142.
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  • Anatomy of an error: A bidirectional state model of task engagement/disengagement and attention-related errors.J. Allan Cheyne, Grayden J. F. Solman, Jonathan S. A. Carriere & Daniel Smilek - 2009 - Cognition 111 (1):98-113.
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  • Conscious thought and the sustained attention to response task.William S. Helton, Rosalie P. Kern & Donieka R. Walker - 2009 - Consciousness and Cognition 18 (3):600-607.
    We investigated the properties of the sustained attention to response task . In the SART, participants respond to frequent neutral signals and are required to withhold response to rare critical signals. We examined whether SART performance shows characteristics of speed–accuracy tradeoffs and in addition, we examined whether SART performance is influenced by prior exposure to emotional picture stimuli. Thirty-six participants in this study performed SARTs after being exposed to neutral and negative picture stimuli. Performance in the SART changed rapidly over (...)
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  • Subjective experience and the attentional lapse: Task engagement and disengagement during sustained attention.J. Smallwood, J. B. Davies, D. Heim, F. Finnigan, M. Sudberry & Obonsawin M. O'Connor R. - 2004 - Consciousness and Cognition 13 (4):657-90.
    Three experiments investigated the relationship between subjective experience and attentional lapses during sustained attention. These experiments employed two measures of subjective experience to examine how differences in awareness correspond to variations in both task performance and psycho-physiological measures . This series of experiments examine these phenomena during the Sustained Attention to Response Task . The results suggest we can dissociate between two components of subjective experience during sustained attention: task unrelated thought which corresponds to an absent minded disengagement from the (...)
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  • Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study.Krystian Barzykowski, Sabina Hajdas, Rémi Radel & Lia Kvavilashvili - 2022 - Consciousness and Cognition 102:103353.
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  • The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study.Krystian Barzykowski, Sabina Hajdas, Rémi Radel, Agnieszka Niedźwieńska & Lia Kvavilashvili - 2021 - Consciousness and Cognition 95 (C):103208.
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  • Mind-wandering and task stimuli: Stimulus-dependent thoughts influence performance on memory tasks and are more often past- versus future-oriented.David Maillet, Paul Seli & Daniel L. Schacter - 2017 - Consciousness and Cognition 52:55-67.
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  • Subjective experience and the attentional lapse: Task engagement and disengagement during sustained attention.Jonathan Smallwood, John B. Davies, Derek Heim, Frances Finnigan, Megan Sudberry, Rory O'Connor & Marc Obonsawin - 2004 - Consciousness and Cognition 13 (4):657-690.
    Three experiments investigated the relationship between subjective experience and attentional lapses during sustained attention. These experiments employed two measures of subjective experience to examine how differences in awareness correspond to variations in both task performance and psycho-physiological measures . This series of experiments examine these phenomena during the Sustained Attention to Response Task . The results suggest we can dissociate between two components of subjective experience during sustained attention: task unrelated thought which corresponds to an absent minded disengagement from the (...)
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  • Mind-wandering and dysphoria.Jonathan Smallwood, Rory C. O'Connor, Megan V. Sudbery & Marc Obonsawin - 2007 - Cognition and Emotion 21 (4):816-842.
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  • Attention in Skilled Behavior: An Argument for Pluralism.Alex Dayer & Carolyn Dicey Jennings - 2021 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (3):615-638.
    Peak human performance—whether of Olympic athletes, Nobel prize winners, or you cooking the best dish you’ve ever made—depends on skill. Skill is at the heart of what it means to excel. Yet, the fixity of skilled behavior can sometimes make it seem a lower-level activity, more akin to the movements of an invertebrate or a machine. Peak performance in elite athletes is often described, for example, as “automatic” by those athletes: “The most frequent response from participants when describing the execution (...)
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  • Theory of Mind and the Whole Brain Functional Connectivity: Behavioral and Neural Evidences with the Amsterdam Resting State Questionnaire.Antonella Marchetti, Francesca Baglio, Isa Costantini, Ottavia Dipasquale, Federica Savazzi, Raffaello Nemni, Francesca Sangiuliano Intra, Semira Tagliabue, Annalisa Valle, Davide Massaro & Ilaria Castelli - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • Solely Generic Phenomenology.Ned Block - 2015 - Open MIND 2015.
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  • The consequences of encoding information on the maintenance of internally generated images and thoughts: The role of meaning complexes.Jonathan Smallwood, Rory C. O’Connor, Megan V. Sudberry, Crystal Haskell & Carrie Ballantyne - 2004 - Consciousness and Cognition 13 (4):789-820.
    Three experiments investigated the hypothesis that internally generated images and thoughts were driven by meaning complexes, a construct which reflects a synthesis of semantic meaning and personal salience . Experiments 1 and 2 contrasted the mutual inhibition between encoding words and non-words on: the frequency that thoughts and images unrelated to the task were experienced and on the intensity of images generated from long-term memory and maintained under dual task conditions, which whilst familiar were not of particular personal salience . (...)
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  • Dissociable influences of implicit temporal expectation on attentional performance and mind wandering.Stijn A. A. Massar, Jia-Hou Poh, Julian Lim & Michael W. L. Chee - 2020 - Cognition 199:104242.
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  • Not all minds that wander are lost: the importance of a balanced perspective on the mind-wandering state.Jonathan Smallwood & Jessica Andrews-Hanna - 2013 - Frontiers in Psychology 4.
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  • Attention failures versus misplaced diligence: Separating attention lapses from speed–accuracy trade-offs.Paul Seli, James Allan Cheyne & Daniel Smilek - 2012 - Consciousness and Cognition 21 (1):277-291.
    In two studies of a GO–NOGO task assessing sustained attention, we examined the effects of altering speed–accuracy trade-offs through instructions and auditory alerts distributed throughout the task. Instructions emphasizing accuracy reduced errors and changed the distribution of GO trial RTs. Additionally, correlations between errors and increasing RTs produced a U-function; excessively fast and slow RTs accounted for much of the variance of errors. Contrary to previous reports, alerts increased errors and RT variability. The results suggest that standard instructions for sustained (...)
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  • Role of triggers and dysphoria in mind-wandering about past, present and future: A laboratory study.Benjamin Plimpton, Priya Patel & Lia Kvavilashvili - 2015 - Consciousness and Cognition 33:261-276.
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  • Letting go of the present: Mind-wandering is associated with reduced delay discounting.Jonathan Smallwood, Florence Jm Ruby & Tania Singer - 2013 - Consciousness and Cognition 22 (1):1-7.
    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 experience is related to the decisions that people make in daily life. We examined how task-unrelated thought varies with the length of time participants are willing to wait for an economic reward, as measured using an inter-temporal discounting task. When participants performed a task requiring minimal attention, the greater the amount of time spent (...)
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  • Harnessing the wandering mind: the role of perceptual load.Sophie Forster & Nilli Lavie - 2009 - Cognition 111 (3):345-355.
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  • Relations between physical activity and hippocampal functional connectivity: Modulating role of mind wandering.Donglin Shi, Fengji Geng, Xiaoxin Hao, Kejie Huang & Yuzheng Hu - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:950893.
    Physical activity is critical for maintaining cognitive and brain health. Previous studies have indicated that the effect of physical activity on cognitive and brain function varies between individuals. The present study aimed to examine whether mind wandering modulated the relations between physical activity and resting-state hippocampal functional connectivity. A total of 99 healthy adults participated in neuroimaging data collection as well as reported their physical activity in the past week and their propensity to mind wandering during typical activities. The results (...)
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  • Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory.Manasi Jayakumar, Chinmayi Balusu & Mariam Aly - 2023 - Cognition 235 (C):105408.
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  • The neural substrate for dreaming: Is it a subsystem of the default network?G. William Domhoff - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1163-1174.
    Building on the content, developmental, and neurological evidence that there are numerous parallels between waking cognition and dreaming, this article argues that the likely neural substrate that supports dreaming, which was discovered through converging lesion and neuroimaging studies, may be a subsystem of the waking default network, which is active during mind wandering, daydreaming, and simulation. Support for this hypothesis would strengthen the case for a more general neurocognitive theory of dreaming that starts with established findings and concepts derived from (...)
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  • Global interference and spatial uncertainty in the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART).William S. Helton, Lena Weil, Annette Middlemiss & Andrew Sawers - 2010 - Consciousness and Cognition 19 (1):77-85.
    The Sustained Attention to Response Task is a Go–No-Go signal detection task developed to measure lapses of sustained conscious attention. In this study, we examined the impact global interference and spatial uncertainty has on SART performance. Ten participants performed either a SART or a traditionally formatted version of a global–local stimuli detection task with spatially certain and uncertain signals. Reaction time in the SART was insensitive to global interference and spatial uncertainty, whereas reaction time in the low-Go task was sensitive. (...)
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  • Encoding during the attentional lapse: Accuracy of encoding during the semantic sustained attention to response task.J. Smallwood, L. Riby, D. Heim & J. Davies - 2006 - Consciousness and Cognition 15 (1):218-231.
    An experiment investigated the relationship between the ability to encode verbal stimuli during an attentional lapse. The task employed a variation on the sustained attention to response task which involved the detection of an infrequent target against a background of words. As a manipulation, participants were either instructed to encode the stimuli or were merely exposed to the stimuli. Retrieval was measured using process dissociation. Irrespective of the instructions given to the participants during the task, participants were more likely to (...)
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  • Revisiting consciousness: Distinguishing between states of conscious focused attention and mind wandering with EEG.M. R. Dias da Silva, Ó. F. Gonçalves, D. Branco & M. Postma - 2022 - Consciousness and Cognition 101:103332.
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  • Different efficiencies of attentional orienting in different wandering minds.Nantu Hu, Sheng He & Baihua Xu - 2012 - Consciousness and Cognition 21 (1):139-148.
    This study examined the relations between properties of attentional networks and Mind Wandering across individuals. For the attentional networks, we measured three components of attention, known as alerting, orienting, and executive control, using the Attention Network Test . To investigate MW, we measured thought probes embedded in the Sustained Attention to Response Task . Moreover, four performance characteristics of the SART were calculated as behavioral indices of MW. Three of them showed significant associations with probed MW. Most research regarding MW (...)
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  • Dispositional mindfulness and the wandering mind: Implications for attentional control in older adults.Stephanie Fountain-Zaragoza, Allison Londerée, Patrick Whitmoyer & Ruchika Shaurya Prakash - 2016 - Consciousness and Cognition 44:193-204.
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