English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
  The footprints of a wandering mind: Further examination of the time course of an attentional lapse

Smallwood, J. (2011). The footprints of a wandering mind: Further examination of the time course of an attentional lapse. Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(2), 91-97. doi:10.1080/17588928.2010.537746.

Item is

Files

show Files

Locators

show

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
Smallwood, Jonathan1, Author           
Affiliations:
1External Organizations, ou_persistent22              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: Attentional lapses; Task-unrelated thought; Stimulus-independent thought; Default mode network; Mind-wandering
 Abstract: Recently, understanding the sequence of events that precedes an attentional lapse has become an important question in cognitive neuroscience. To examine the processes which lead to such errors, participants performed a simple go/no-go task used for measuring attentional failure. To study the role of internal distraction, the participants' tendency to daydreaming was assessed via a questionnaire. Principal components analysis (PCA) was used to decompose the response time (RT) course into the underlying components. Analysis identified three components that made up 54% of the data collected. One factor indicated the overall magnitude of the RT in a given block. This factor showed a significant negative weighting prior to an error. A second factor indicating that RT shifted from slow to fast was also identified. The parity of this factor was predictive of error for individuals high on daydreaming, indicating that errors in individuals with a rich, imaginative mental life showed a shift from slow to fast responding prior to an attentional lapse. This analysis provides further evidence that attentional lapses can result from events that took place many seconds before the mistake and that the elements of the default mode may be involved in these lapses.

Details

show
hide
Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2010-08-112010-10-062010-12-232011
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: -
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2010.537746
 Degree: -

Event

show

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source 1

show
hide
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience
  Abbreviation : Cogn Neurosci
Source Genre: Journal
 Creator(s):
Affiliations:
Publ. Info: Hove : Psychology Press
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 2 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 91 - 97 Identifier: ISSN: 1758-8928
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1758-8928