Manipulating cues in mind wandering: Verbal cues affect the frequency and the temporal focus of mind wandering |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of NEUROFARBA-Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy;2. Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Ghent, Belgium;1. System and Information Processing Department, ONERA, Salon de Provence, France;2. Brain and Cognition Research Center (Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition) (UMR 5549), CNRS, Toulouse, France;3. Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA;1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;2. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Dept d''Etudes Cognitives, ENS, PSL University, EHESS, CNRS, Paris, France;3. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;1. Université de Toulouse, France _ CLLE (Cognition, Langues, Langage et Ergonomie); UTM, EPHE, CNRS, 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France;2. Continental, 1 Avenue Paul Ourliac, 31100 Toulouse, France;3. IFSTTAR-TS2-LESCOT, Laboratoire Ergonomie et Sciences Cognitives pour les transports, 25 Avenue François Mitterrand Case 24, 69675 Bron, France;4. INSERM, 146 rue Léo Saignat, Bâtiment TP Zone Sud 4ème étage, 33000 Bordeaux, France;5. Université Paris Sud Laboratoire de Mathématiques, bâtiment 425, Faculté des Sciences d''Orsay, Université Paris-Sud 11, 91405 Orsay, France |
| |
| Abstract: | Our understanding of mind wandering (MW) has dramatically increased over the past decade. A key challenge still facing research is the identification of the processes and events that directly cause and control its occurrence. In the present study we sought to shed light on this question, by investigating the effects of verbal cues on the frequency and temporal focus of MW. To this aim, we experimentally manipulated the presence of irrelevant verbal cues during a vigilance task, in two independent groups (Verbal-cues group vs. No-cues group).We found that compared to the No-cues group, the Verbal-cues group reported a higher amount of MW, mostly triggered by the irrelevant cue-words, and a higher proportion of past-oriented MW compared to the other temporal orientations. These results demonstrate that task-irrelevant verbal stimulation increases the frequency of MW and steers its temporal orientation toward the past. Implications for the research on MW are discussed. |
| |
| Keywords: | Mind wandering Task-unrelated thoughts Involuntary autobiographical memories Verbal cues Temporal orientation Retrospective bias |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
