The restless mind.

By J. Smallwood, Jonathan W. Schooler. Psychological bulletin, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Practice Is Protective: Mindfulness Training Promotes Cognitive Resilience in High-Stress Cohorts (2017, background): “Correlations were examined to investigate whether, similar to previous findings (Smallwood and Schooler 2006), there was a significant correspondence between objective performance measures (A′) and subjective ratings of mind wandering”
The wandering brain: Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes (2015, neutral): “3 was created by overlaying our meta-analytic statistical map onto a surface brain projection using the Caret software (Van Essen, 2005), with network demarcations derived from resting-state functional connectivityMRI in a sample of 1000 adults (Yeo et al., 2011).”
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity: A Critical Review (2011, background): “One of the most solid and consistent findings of CN studies is that the brain's resting state is quite similar to the problem solving state; to conceptual processing; and to memory retrieval (see citations in Smallwood & Schooler, 2006 ).”
Variation in Cognitive Failures: An Individual Differences Investigation of Everyday Attention and Memory Failures. (2012, background): “During that time the PDA would signal the participant to fill out a questionnaire regarding whether they had experienced any mind-wandering (e.g., Mason et al., 2007; Smallwood & Schooler, 2006) at the time of the signal, thereby providing information on everyday attention failures.”
Lapses in sustained attention and their relation to executive control and fluid abilities: An individual differences investigation (2010, background): “Thus, individual differences in lapses of attention or mind wandering (see Smallwood & Schooler, 2006 for a review) as indexed by either the slowest RTs in basic RT tasks or self-report measures seem to be strongly related to measures of WMC and intelligence.”
Threatened to distraction Mind-wandering as a consequence of stereotype threat (2011, background): “Mind-wandering under stereotype threat Mind-wandering is defined as a decoupling of attention from the immediate task context toward unrelated concerns (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006).”
Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference. (2007, background): “present-centred awareness is the well-established tendency for the mind to wander and become distracted from the present moment in favour of temporally distant, stimulus-independent thought (SIT) (Smallwood and Schooler, 2006).”
A Correspondence between Individual Differences in the Brain's Intrinsic Functional Architecture and the Content and Form of Self-Generated Thoughts (2014, background): “measures of experience [8], however, both approaches indicate a”
Depression, anxiety, and stress and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering. (2019, background): “For instance, the MW-S and MW-D likely conflate the taskunrelated-thought variety of mind wandering (e.g., Smallwood & Schooler, 2006) with the stimulus-independent-thought variety (e.g., Mason et al., 2007), because the items of these scales do not distinguish between these two varieties of mind…”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, neutral): “Mindwandering often occurs at rest, but also frequently interrupts tasks requiring sustained attention, suggesting an interplay between cognitive states that may involve fluctuations between DMN and attention network activity (Smallwood and Schooler, 2006).”
Enhancing attention and memory during video-recorded lectures. (2015, methodology): “Nonetheless, this executive control of attention can sometimes fail, and bouts of inattention are not uncommonly consumed by self-relevant thoughts unrelated to the content of ongoing external stimulation (Smallwood, 2013; Smallwood & Schooler, 2006).”
Interest-based text preference moderates the effect of text difficulty on engagement and learning (2015, methodology): “Similarly, increased mind wandering (or zone outs) has been reported in easy versions of lab-based cognitive tasks (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006), but also when reading difficult compared to easy texts (Feng et al., 2013).”
Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. (2010, background): “When the mind wanders, discursive thoughts become the primary focus further decoupling attention directed towards the primary task (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006).”