Dimensions of Thought Flow in Everyday Life

By E. Klinger, W. Cox. 1987

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “In private speech research, this idea has been tested by examining the effect of, for example, culture-specific patterns of child–adult interaction (Berk & Garvin, 1984) and contrasts between collectivistic and individualistic cultures (AlNamlah et al., 2006). Perhaps reflecting the greater methodol”
Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain's Default Network (2010, unknown): “Foreshadowed by William James, such ‘‘stream of thought’’ may reflect what we do the majority of the time (James, 1890; Klinger and Cox, 1987), likely signaling important adaptive functions (Singer, 1966; Klinger, 1971).”
Inner experience in the scanner: can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014, background): “For example, inner speech is held by some to occur during every waking moment (Archer, 2003; Baars, 2003; Ihde, 2012) and by others to occur about three-quarters of the time (e.g., Klinger and Cox, 1995).”
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Self-reported Frequency, Content, and Functions of Inner Speech (unknown): “Spontaneously occurring thoughts in healthy individuals have been investigated using numerous variations of the thought sampling method (see Klinger & Cox, 1987-88; Goldstein & Kenen, 1988).”
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering (2009, result): “However, the finding that both the anterior PFC, a region previously linked to multi-tasking (34-37), and the dorsal ACC, a region closely linked to conflict detection (32, 38-40), were more active when subjects were unaware of their own mind wandering, suggests that the third possibility may be mos”
Patterns of hemodynamic low-frequency oscillations in the brain are modulated by the nature of free thought during rest (2012, background): “Also referred to as daydreaming (Singer, 1966), this state has been demonstrated to occupy one-third of our time spent awake (Kane et al., 2007; Klinger and Cox, 1987) and includes all thoughts that are not involved in the processing of task stimuli (Teasdale et al.”
Back to the future: the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety (2009, background): “Indeed, 12% of our daily thoughts are about the future (Klinger & Cox, 1987) and this MTT is often pleasurable, as people tend to imagine themselves achieving and succeeding rather than fumbling or failing (see Gilbert, 2006).”
The Brain’s Default Network and its Adaptive Role in Internal Mentation (2011, background): “Daily experience sampling techniques estimate that humans spend between 30% and 50% of daily life engaged in thoughts unrelated to the immediate task at hand (e.g., Klinger and Cox 1987; Killingsworth and Gilbert 2010).”
Maladaptive Daydreaming: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria and Their Assessment With a Structured Clinical Interview (2017, unknown): “Normal daydreaming is usually not particularly fanciful (Klinger & Cox, 1987) and is said to serve four adaptive functions: future planning; creativity and problem solving; attentional cycling that allows individuals to alternate between different information streams to advance important goals; and…”
Frequency, characteristics and functions of future‐oriented thoughts in daily life (2011, unknown): “Using a beeper to sample people’s thoughts at random times during their everyday activities, Klinger and Cox (1987) observed that 12% of the sampled thoughts dealt with the future.”