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| Title |
Can mind-wandering be timeless? Atemporal focus and aging in mind-wandering paradigms
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00742 |
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| Authors |
Jonathan D. Jackson, Yana Weinstein, David A. Balota |
| Abstract |
Recent research has examined how often mind-wandering occurs about past vs. future events. However, mind-wandering may also be atemporal, although previous investigations of this possibility have not yielded consistent results. Indeed, it is unclear what proportion of mind-wandering is atemporal, and also how an atemporal response option would affect the future-oriented bias often reported during low-demand tasks used to measure mind-wandering. The present study examined self-reported (Experiment 1) and probe-caught (Experiment 2) mind-wandering using the low-demand Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) in younger (18-30) and older (50-73) adults in an experimental paradigm developed to measure mind-wandering using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (Mturk). Across self-reported and probe-caught mind-wandering, the atemporal response option was used at least as frequently as past or future mind-wandering options. Although older adults reported far fewer mind-wandering events, they showed a very similar temporal pattern to younger adults. Most importantly, inclusion of the atemporal report option affected performance on the SART and selectively eliminated the prospective bias in self-reported mind-wandering, but not in probe-caught mind-wandering. These results suggest that both young and older participants are often not thinking of past or future events when mind-wandering, but are thinking of events that cannot easily be categorized as either. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Ireland | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Peru | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 79 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 29% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 16 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 49 | 59% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 18 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 01 January 2014.
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