ArticlePsychological science2022
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process.
Article in Psychological science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Rate-Associated Differences in Within-Session Motor-Inhibitory Performance: Exploratory Role of Affective Temperament.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Inferring mind wandering from perceptual decision making.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- How can qualitative in-depth interviews optimize cross-cultural measurement of academic resilience?Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Reliability of triggering the stop process is related to prefrontal-subthalamic hyperdirect pathway recruitment.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Developmental patterns of inhibition and fronto-basal-ganglia white matter organisation in healthy children and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Failing to attend versus failing to stop: Single-trial decomposition of action-stopping in the stop signal task.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Comparing attentional disengagement between Prolific and MTurk samples.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Drinking alcohol to cope with hyperactive ADHD? Self-reports vs. continuous performance test in patients with ADHD and/or alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mind wandering is a state in which our mental focus shifts toward task-unrelated thoughts. Although it is known that mind wandering has a detrimental effect on concurrent task performance (e.g., decreased accuracy), its effect on executive functions is poorly studied. Yet the latter question is relevant to many real-world situations, such as rapid stopping during driving. Here, we studied how mind wandering would affect the requirement to subsequently stop an incipient motor response. In healthy adults, we tested whether mind wandering affected stopping and, if so, which component of stopping was affected: the triggering of the inhibitory brake or the implementation of the brake following triggering. We observed that during mind wandering, stopping latency increased, as did the percentage of trials with failed triggering. Indeed, 67% of the variance of the increase in stopping latency was explained by increased trigger failures. Thus, mind wandering primarily affects stopping by affecting the triggering of the brake.
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