Why the Global Availability of Mind Wandering Necessitates Resource Competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010)

By J. Smallwood. 2010

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Mind-wandering is unguided attention: accounting for the “purposeful” wanderer (2016, background): “Thus, one could argue that mind-wandering is at least ‘‘access conscious’’, i.e. available for use in reasoning and the rational control of action and speech (Block 1996; cf. Smallwood 2010 for a similar argument).”
Threatened to distraction Mind-wandering as a consequence of stereotype threat (2011, background): “However, it is also possible that mind-wandering itself is triggered by stereotype threat and once initiated engages the same resources that are needed for successful task performance (Smallwood, 2010).”
The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering (2014, background): “…debates regarding the specific cognitive processes involved (e.g., Franklin, Mrazek, Broadway, & Schooler, 2013; McVay & Kane, 2010a, 2010b; Smallwood, 2010, 2013) and how various neurocognitive activities interact when individuals are mind-wandering versus on-task (Christoff et al., 2009;…”
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness. (2015, background): “At present there is no consensus on the precise relationship between mind wandering and executive control, despite the identification of a clear link between them (McVay & Kane 2010, Smallwood 2010).”
The Brain’s Default Network and its Adaptive Role in Internal Mentation (2011, background): “Interestingly, participants also activated frontoparietal control regions when experiencing spontaneous thoughts, a finding which is currently a matter of debate (McVay and Kane 2010; Smallwood 2010).”