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| Title |
Mind-blanking: when the mind goes away
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00650 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Adrian F. Ward, Daniel M. Wegner |
| Abstract |
People often feel like their minds and their bodies are in different places. Far from an exotic experience, this phenomenon seems to be a ubiquitous facet of human life (e.g., Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Many times, people's minds seem to go "somewhere else"-attention becomes disconnected from perception, and people's minds wander to times and places removed from the current environment (e.g., Schooler et al., 2004). At other times, however, people's minds may seem to go nowhere at all-they simply disappear. This mental state-mind-blanking-may represent an extreme decoupling of perception and attention, one in which attention fails to bring any stimuli into conscious awareness. In the present research, we outline the properties of mind-blanking, differentiating this mental state from other mental states in terms of phenomenological experience, behavioral outcomes, and underlying cognitive processes. Seven experiments suggest that when the mind seems to disappear, there are times when we have simply failed to monitor its whereabouts-and there are times when it is actually gone. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 52% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 81% |
| Scientists | 4 | 15% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 160 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 154 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 26% |
| Researcher | 25 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 23 | 14% |
| Unknown | 28 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 66 | 41% |
| Neuroscience | 21 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 22 | 14% |
| Unknown | 36 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2023.
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#680,590
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#1,401
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#4,931
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#72
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