Effects of task type on spontaneous alternations of attentional states.
Mind wandering is a common occurrence that can have serious consequences, but estimating when mind wandering occurs is a challenging research question. Previous research has shown that during meditation, people may spontaneously alternate between task-oriented and mind-wandering states without aware...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 984 - 998 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177423302&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177423302 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 52 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 177423302 10.3758/s13421-023-01513-4 ppf: 984 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Effects of task type on spontaneous alternations of attentional states. aug: au: Weber, Mark Cunningham, Emily Beck, Diane M. Sadaghiani, Sepideh Wang, Ranxiao Frances affil: https://ror.org/047426m28 Department of Psychology & Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel St, 61820, Champaign, IL, USA su: Task performance Mindfulness Attention Meditation Memory Cognition Wandering behavior Descriptive statistics Thought & thinking sug: subj: Task performance Mindfulness Attention Meditation Memory Cognition Wandering behavior Descriptive statistics Thought & thinking keyword: Attentional control Mind wandering Spontaneous thought process Attentional control Mind wandering Spontaneous thought process ab: Mind wandering is a common occurrence that can have serious consequences, but estimating when mind wandering occurs is a challenging research question. Previous research has shown that during meditation, people may spontaneously alternate between task-oriented and mind-wandering states without awareness (Zukosky & Wang, 2021, Cognition, 212, Article 104689). However, under what conditions such alternations occur is not clear. The present study examined the effects of task type on spontaneous alternations between task focus and mind wandering. In addition to a meditation task, participants performed either a scene-categorization-based CPT or a visual detection task while attentional orientation was assessed via self-monitoring and intermittent probes. The three tasks differ in the extent of their reliance on continuous monitoring (less required in the detection than meditation and CPT tasks) and attentional orientation (oriented internally in meditation task and externally in CPT and detection tasks). To overcome prior methodological challenges, we applied a technique designed to detect spontaneous alternations between focused and mind-wandering states without awareness, based on how the proportion of "focused" responses/ratings to intermittent probes changes during a focus-to-mind-wandering interval (i.e., the period from one self-report of mind wandering to the subsequent self-report). Our results showed that the proportion of "focused" responses to intermittent probes remained constant with increasing interprobe interval during meditation (consistent with previous work), but declined significantly in the CPT and detection tasks. These findings support the hypothesis that spontaneous alternations of attentional states without self-awareness occur during tasks emphasizing internally but not externally oriented attention. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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