Mind Wandering and Other Lapses

Encyclopedia of Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 57-69

  Smallwood, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Global workspace; Imagination; Meta awareness consciousness; Stream of consciousness; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649222081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373873-8.00052-9     Document Type: Chapter

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