Mind-wandering While Reading: Attentional Decoupling, Mindless Reading and the Cascade Model of Inattention

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 63-77

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 79951788210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00263.x     Document Type: Review

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