ArticleJournal of attention disorders2021
Context Regulation of Mind Wandering in ADHD.
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- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- The "Feeling" of inattention: ADHD symptoms and mind wandering beyond remembered thought content.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Time-resolved aperiodic dynamics in event segmentation in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Does Mind-Wandering Explain ADHD-Related Impairment in Adolescents?Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Examining the association between vigilance and mind wandering.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Effects of task context on EEG correlates of mind-wandering.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Assessment Based on Patient Behavior Exhibited in a Car Video Game: A Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Mind wandering in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Preliminary evaluation using the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale in a Japanese clinical population.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2022Article
- Event-related brain dynamics during mind wandering in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An experience-sampling approach.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Article
- More than off-task: Increased freely-moving thought in ADHD.Consciousness and cognition · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe aimed to understand the association between MW frequency and clinical measures, context regulation of MW and group differences in task performance.
method27 adults with ADHD and 29 controls performed tasks manipulating demand on working memory and sustained attention, and recorded their MW frequency using probes.
resultsA significant association between MW frequency and the clinical measures was demonstrated. Along with increased MW frequency, individuals with ADHD reported decreasing MW frequency during increasing demands on working memory (context regulation), but not on sustained attention (deficient context regulation). Controls, however, maintained continuous task focus across all conditions. Group differences in task performance were no longer significant after adding MW frequency as a covariate.
conclusionDeficient context regulation during increasing demands on sustained attention suggests that sustained attention deficits may play a more important role in regulation of MW in ADHD. MW frequency might also underpin performance deficits in ADHD.
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