Manipulating the temporal locus and content of mind-wandering.

Alice Liefgreen, Marshall A Dalton, Eleanor A Maguire

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Article in Consciousness and cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Out of the blue: understanding abrupt and wayward transitions in thought using probability and predictive processing.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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Alice LiefgreenDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.

Marshall A DaltonBrain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Eleanor A MaguireWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: e.maguire@ucl.ac.uk.

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Wellcome Trust 101759/Z/13/ZWellcome Trust 203147/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 210567/Z/18/Z

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human brain has a tendency to drift into the realm of internally-generated thoughts that are unbound by space and time. The term mind-wandering (MW) is often used describe such thoughts when they are perceptually decoupled. Evidence suggests that exposure to forward and backward illusory motion skews the temporal orientation of MW thoughts to either the future or past respectively. However, little is known about the impact of this manipulation on other features of MW. Here, using a novel experimental paradigm, we first confirmed that our illusory motion method facilitated the generation of MW thoughts congruent with the direction of motion. We then conducted content analyses which revealed that goal orientation and temporal distance were also significantly affected by the direction of illusory motion. We conclude that illusory motion may be an effective means of assaying MW and could help to elucidate this ubiquitous, and likely critical, component of cognition.

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AdultAttentionEcological Momentary AssessmentFemaleHumansImaginationKinesthesisMaleMotion PerceptionSpace PerceptionThinkingYoung AdultDaydreamingEpisodic memoryExperience samplingFuture-thinkingHippocampusIllusory motionMental time travelScenesThought samplingVection

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PMID32036278

DOI10.1016/j.concog.2020.102885

PMCPMC7077747

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