The restless mind.
- J. Smallwood, J. Schooler
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 1 November 2006
Evidence suggests that mind wandering shares many similarities with traditional notions of executive control, and can be seen as a goal-driven process, albeit one that is not directed toward the primary task.
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering
- K. Christoff, A. Gordon, J. Smallwood, Rachelle Smith, J. Schooler
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 26 May 2009
An fMRI study that used experience sampling to provide an online measure of mind wandering during a concurrent task revealed a number of crucial aspects of the neural recruitment associated with mind wandering, highlighting the value of combining subjective self-reports with online measures of brain function for advancing the understanding of the neurophenomenology of subjective experience.
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness.
- J. Smallwood, J. Schooler
- PsychologyAnnual Review of Psychology
- 5 January 2015
Examination of the information-processing demands of the mind-wandering state suggests that it involves perceptual decoupling to escape the constraints of the moment, its content arises from episodic and affective processes, and its regulation relies on executive control.
Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: Some things are better left unsaid
- J. Schooler, Tonya Y Engstler-Schooler
- PsychologyCognitive Psychology
- 31 January 1990
Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind
- J. Schooler, J. Smallwood, K. Christoff, T. Handy, E. Reichle, M. Sayette
- PsychologyTrends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 July 2011
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering
- M. Mrazek, M. S. Franklin, Dawa T. Phillips, Benjamin Baird, J. Schooler
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 28 March 2013
Cultivating mindfulness is an effective and efficient technique for improving cognitive function, with wide-reaching consequences, and improves both GRE reading-comprehension scores and working memory capacity.
Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions.
- T. Wilson, J. Schooler
- EducationJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 February 1991
College students who analyzed why they felt the way they did agreed less with the experts than students who did not, which caused people to make choices that corresponded less with expert opinion.
The Value of Believing in Free Will
- K. Vohs, J. Schooler
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 January 2008
The study of whether inducing participants to believe that human behavior is predetermined would encourage cheating suggests that the debate over free will has societal, as well as scientific and theoretical, implications.
Thoughts beyond words : When language overshadows insight
- J. Schooler, S. Ohlsson, Kevin M. Brooks
- Psychology
- 31 July 1993
Four experiments examined whether verbalization can interfere with insight problem solving. In Experiment 1, Ss were interrupted during problem solving and asked either to verbalize their strategies…
Re-representing consciousness: dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness
- J. Schooler
- Psychology, BiologyTrends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 August 2002
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