A5068976771- Mind wandering and attention
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Educational Tools and Methods
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Memory Processes and Influences
Appalachian State University
2024
Western Carolina University
2016-2022
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2012-2021
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2021
Individual differences in working memory capacity are related to a variety of behaviors both within and outside the lab. Recently developed automated complex span tasks have contributed increasing our knowledge concerning by making valid reliable assessments freely available for use researchers. Combining samples from three testing locations yielded data over 6,000 young adult participants who performed at least one such (Operation, Symmetry, Reading Span). Normative presented here...
Undergraduates ( N = 274) participated in a weeklong daily-life experience-sampling study of mind wandering after being assessed the lab for executive-control abilities (working memory capacity; attention-restraint ability; attention-constraint and propensity task-unrelated thoughts, or TUTs) personality traits. Eight times day, electronic devices prompted subjects to report on their current thoughts context. Working capacity attention predicted subjects' TUT rates lab, but frequency only as...
A large correlational study took a latent-variable approach to the generality of executive control by testing individual-differences structure executive-attention capabilities and assessing their prediction schizotypy, multidimensional construct (with negative, positive, disorganized, paranoid factors) conveying risk for schizophrenia. Although schizophrenia is convincingly linked deficits, schizotypy literature equivocal. Subjects completed tasks working memory capacity (WMC), attention...
Attentional control as an ability to regulate information processing during goal-directed behavior is critical many theories of human cognition and thought predict a large range everyday behaviors. However, in recent years, failures reliably assess individual differences attentional have sparked debate concerning whether control, currently conceptualized assessed, can be regarded valid psychometric construct. In this consensus paper, we summarize the current from theoretical, methodological,...
Abstract Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The present study explored the construct validity of probed reports (i.e., task-unrelated thought [TUT]) with combined experimental individual-differences approach. We examined laboratory data from over 1000 undergraduates at two U.S. institutions, who responded to one four different thought-probe types across cognitive tasks. asked fundamental question: Do probe yield results, either in terms average...
The mind-wandering literature is long on results and short theory. One notable exception the Dynamic Framework, a theoretical framework that characterizes mind wandering as thoughts are relatively unconstrained from deliberate automatic sources, or "freely moving." Critically, this makes numerous testable predictions, including (a) positive association between freely moving thought ADHD, (b) negative associations depression, anxiety, OCD, (c) divergent thinking ability. In Study 1, to test...
Two experiments examined the relations among working memory capacity (WMC), congruency-sequence effects, proportion-congruency and color-word Stroop effect to test whether effects might inform theoretical claims regarding WMC's prediction of interference. In Experiment 1, subjects completed either a high-congruency or low-congruency task that restricted trial-to-trial repetitions stimulus dimensions examine relation while minimizing bottom-up, stimulus-driven contributions....
Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012, Experiment 2) found that working memory capacity (WMC) correlated positively with mind-wandering rates measured by thought probes in a breath-awareness task but was unassociated the tendency to self-catch mind wandering. Here, I sought replicate associations between wandering WMC Levinson et al.’s task. The data from current study, collected 315 subjects ( ns differed among analyses) two measures of WMC, suggest if correlates probe-caught wandering,...
The association between working memory capacity (WMC) and the antisaccade task, which requires subjects to move their eyes attention away from a strong visual cue, supports claim that WMC is partially an attentional construct (Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001; Unsworth, Schrock, 2004). Specifically, WMC-antisaccade relation suggests helps maintain execute task goals despite interference habitual actions. Related work has recently shown mind wandering (McVay Kane, 2009, 2012a, 2012b)...
We conducted an exploratory study of adult individual differences in the contents mindwandering experiences and moment-to-moment consistency that off-task thought content within tasks.This secondary analysis a published dataset (Kane et al., 2016) examined content-based reports 472-541 undergraduates made five probed tasks across three sessions, tested whether executive-control abilities (working memory capacity [WMC], attention-restraint ability), or personality dimensions schizotypy...
Psychology faces a measurement crisis, and mind-wandering research is not immune. The present study explored the construct validity of probed reports (i.e., task-unrelated thought [TUT]) with combined experimental individual-differences approach. We examined laboratory data from over 1,000 undergraduates at two U.S. institutions, who responded to one four different thought-probe types across cognitive tasks. asked fundamental question: Do probe yield results, either in terms average (average...
More and more psychological researchers have come to appreciate the perils of common but poorly justified research practices are rethinking commonly held standards for evaluating research. As this methodological reform expresses itself in research, peer reviewers such work must also adapt their remain relevant. Reviewers journal submissions wield considerable power promote reform, thereby contribute advancement a robust literature. We describe concrete that can use encourage transparency,...
Three experiments examined the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and 2 different forms of cognitive conflict: stimulus-stimulus (S-S) stimulus-response (S-R) interference. Our goal was to test whether WMC's conflict-task performance is mediated by stimulus-identification processes (captured S-S conflict), response-selection S-R or both. In Experiment 1, subjects completed a single task presenting both conflict trials, plus trials that combined types. We limited ostensible...
Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek (2015) found that, through retrospective confidence reports, participants can distinguish the validity of their mind wandering reports during a sustained attention ("metronome response") task. In addition, some were better able to make this distinction than others. Here, I sought replicate both within- between-subjects' effects judgments on thought probe validity. To end, executed preregistered close replication Seli et al. extended work by...
The worst performance rule (WPR) is a robust empirical finding reflecting that people's task shows numerically stronger correlations with cognitive ability than their average or best performance. However, recent meta-analytic work has proposed this be renamed the "not-best performance" because mean and seem to predict similar degrees, both predicting better We re-analyzed data from previously published latent-variable study test for vs. not-best across variety of reaction time tasks in...
Forster and Lavie (2014, 2016) found that task-irrelevant distraction correlated positively with a measure of mind-wandering report Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptomology. Based primarily on these results, claimed to establish an attention-distractibility trait. Here, I sought replicate the associations among measures distraction, mind wandering, ADHD symptomology, test if could be distinguished from working memory capacity task-relevant distraction. With data collected...
Van den Driessche et al. (2017) found that children and young adults with more Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms report mind blanking than those fewer ADHD non-medicated reported less wandering medicated ADHD.Van speculated medication facilitated executive control resources support (and on-task thought).Besides describing the conscious experience of symptomology, these findings bear on theoretical debate functions' role in experience.Some argue functions (Levinson,...
We conducted an exploratory study of adult individual differences in the contents mind-wandering experiences and moment-to-moment consistency that off-task thought content within tasks. This secondary analysis a published dataset (Kane et al., 2016) examined content-based reports 472-541 undergraduates made five probed tasks across three sessions, tested whether executive-control abilities (working memory capacity [WMC], attention-restraint ability), or personality dimensions schizotypy...
Levinson, Smallwood, and Davidson (2012, Experiment 2) found that working memory capacity (WMC) correlated positively with mind-wandering propensity measured by thought probes in a breath-monitoring task, but was unassociated the tendency to self-catch mind-wandering. Here, I sought replicate associations between WMC Levinson et al. breath task. With data from large sample of subjects two measures WMC, current study suggests that, if correlates probe-caught mind wandering, it is most likely...