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Absorbed in Thought: The Effect of Mind Wandering on the Processing of Relevant and Irrelevant Events
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This study used event-related potentials to explore whether mind wandering (task-unrelated thought, or TUT) emerges through general problems in distraction, deficits of task-relevant processing (the executive-function view), or a general reduction in attention to external events regardless of their relevance (the decoupling hypothesis). Twenty-five participants performed a visual oddball task, in which they were required to differentiate between a rare target stimulus (to measure task-relevant processes), a rare novel stimulus (to measure distractor processing), and a frequent nontarget stimulus. TUT was measured immediately following task performance using a validated retrospective measure. High levels of TUT were associated with a reduction in cortical processing of task-relevant events and distractor stimuli. These data contradict the suggestion that mind wandering is associated with distraction problems or specific deficits in task-relevant processes. Instead, the data are consistent with the decoupling hypothesis: that TUT dampens the processing of sensory information irrespective of that information’s task relevance.
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- Barron, E., Riby, L. M., Greer, J., & Smallwood, J.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-04-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 596-601
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2153434951
- Cited by
- 281
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 8.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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