Why the Global Availability of Mind Wandering Necessitates Resource Competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-207

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

consciousness; default mode; global workspace; mind wandering; task unrelated stimulus independent thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649211113     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018673     Document Type: Article

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