Your mind wanders weakly, your mind wanders deeply: Objective measures reveal mindless reading at different levels

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-194

  Schad, Daniel J ^a   Nuthmann, Antje ^b   Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Levels of processing; Mind wandering; Reading; Signal detection theory; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865751714     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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