Mind wandering and motor control: Off-task thinking disrupts the online adjustment of behavior

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Kam, Julia W Y ^a   Dao, Elizabeth ^a   Blinn, Patricia ^a   Krigolson, Olav E ^b   Boyd, Lara A ^a   Handy, Todd C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Experience sampling; fERN; Mind wandering; Motor control; Performance monitoring; Time estimation; Visuomotor tracking task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84933673254     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00329     Document Type: Article

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