When is your head at? An exploration of the factors associated with the temporal focus of the wandering mind

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-125

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a   Nind, Louise ^b   O'Connor, Rory C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experience sampling; Mental time travel; Mind wandering; Prospective retrospective cognition; Spontaneous thought; Stimulus independent thought; Task unrelated thought

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLECT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62749103316     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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