Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind.

By Jonathan W. Schooler, J. Smallwood, Kalina Christoff, Todd C. Handy, Erik D. Reichle, Michael A. Sayette. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Conceptualising creativity benefits of nature experience: Attention restoration and mind wandering as complementary processes (2018, background): “Mind wandering is associated with activation of the default network (Fox et al., 2015; Schooler et al., 2011; Smallwood & Schooler, 2015).”
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness. (2015, background): “By comparing self-caught mind wandering with mind-wandering episodes caught by probes, it is possible to draw inferences about the role of meta-awareness in various situations (Schooler et al. 2011).”
The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: a review. (2013, background): “This is because most of our activities occur in interaction with the external environment, and mind-wandering is characterized specifically by a decoupling of attention from an immediate task context toward unrelated concerns (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006; Schooler et al., 2011).”
Practice Is Protective: Mindfulness Training Promotes Cognitive Resilience in High-Stress Cohorts (2017, background): “Theoretical models suggest that these lapses may be due to the Bperceptual decoupling^ of attention (Kam and Handy 2013; Schooler et al. 2011, but see Head and Helton 2013).”
The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering (2014, background): “The advantage of distributed practice may stem from processing 24 Jonathan W. Schooler et al. benefits afforded by dishabituation (Schooler et al., 2011 ).”
Maladaptive Daydreaming: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria and Their Assessment With a Structured Clinical Interview (2017, neutral): “…and problem solving; attentional cycling that allows individuals to alternate between different information streams to advance important goals; and dishabituation, which improves learning by providing short breaks from exter-nal tasks (McMillan, Kaufman, & Singer, 2013; Schooler et al., 2011).”
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering (2013, methodology): “Detailed descriptions of these methodologies are available in prior work (Mrazek et al., 2011; Schooler et al., 2011).”
Attention Restoration Theory: Exploring the Role of Soft Fascination and Mental Bandwidth (2019, background): “…bandwidth) have also been linked to mind wandering (Christoff et al., 2016; Immordino-Yang, Christodoulou, & Singh, 2012; Mason et al., 2007; Schooler et al., 2011), a family of spontaneous thought processes that include reflection, daydreaming, self-awareness, planning, and other forms of…”
Exploring the Link Between Mind Wandering, Mindfulness, and Creativity: A Multidimensional Approach (2018, neutral): “…of MW is associated with reduction in both executive control (as in working-memory capacity, see Conway et al., 2005; Redick et al., 2012; Schooler et al., 2011) and attentional control abilities (as in increased MW under the influence of alcohol; see Finnigan, Schulze, & Smallwood,…”
A Correspondence between Individual Differences in the Brain's Intrinsic Functional Architecture and the Content and Form of Self-Generated Thoughts (2014, background): “time (for reviews see [8,9]) and that self-generated thoughts with”
The attentional cost of receiving a cell phone notification. (2015, background): “Second, a large body of work has found that task-irrelevant thoughts, even in cases when the individual appears to be attending to the task at hand, disrupt performance on a wide range of tasks (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006; Schooler et al., 2011), including driving (Cowley, 2013; He, Becic, Lee, & Mc”