Mind Wandering in Chinese Daily Lives - An Experience Sampling Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Song, Xiaolan ^a   Wang, Xiao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIND WANDERING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHINA; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; THINKING;

EID: 84866051117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044423     Document Type: Article

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