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The lights are on but no one’s home: Meta-awareness and the decoupling of attention when the mind wanders
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“To ensure comparability with our previous study (Schurer et al., 2020), we used category classifications that are based on Smallwood et al.'s (2007) definition and include similar categorizations as those in McVay and Kane (2012b).”
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Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind
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- Smallwood, J., McSpadden, M., & Schooler, J. W.
- Venue
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 527-533
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- 1531-5320
- Cited by
- 264
- References
- 5
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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