Catching the mind in flight: Using behavioral indices to detect mindless reading in real time

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 992-997

  Franklin, Michael S ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^b   Schooler, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

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EID: 79959883681     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0109-6     Document Type: Article

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