• DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2011.05.006
Corpus ID: 8628380

Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

@article{Schooler2011MetaawarenessPD,
  title={Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind},
  author={J. Schooler and J. Smallwood and K. Christoff and T. Handy and M. Sayette},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2011},
  volume={15},
  pages={319-326}
}

J. Schooler, J. Smallwood, +2 authors M. Sayette

Published 2011

Psychology, Medicine

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Mind wandering (i.e. engaging in cognitions unrelated to the current demands of the external environment) reflects the cyclic activity of two core processes: the capacity to disengage attention from perception (known as perceptual decoupling) and the ability to take explicit note of the current contents of consciousness (known as meta-awareness). Research on perceptual decoupling demonstrates that mental events that arise without any external precedent (known as stimulus independent thoughts… CONTINUE READING

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