Mind wandering boosts probabilistic learning despite hurting visuomotor task performance. Spontaneous mind wandering enhances ...

Doodling may have reduced daydreaming also because it didn't detract too much from the primary task of listening to the tape, but was enough to stop the mind from wandering too much, Andrade said.

BUDAPEST — We’ve all been there — sitting in a meeting or classroom, only to suddenly realize we haven’t heard a word in the last five minutes because our thoughts drifted elsewhere.

Mind blanking – the experience of “thinking of nothing” – has long been misunderstood or grouped with related phenomena such as mind wandering. Now, in an opinion piece published in Trends in ...

Usually, mind-wandering happens when you’re in the middle of performing a boring task at work or home. You might stop what you’re doing and get lost in the thought of a fictional scenario in ...

Previous research has regarded mind blanking alongside mind wandering. But while similar, mind wandering and mind blanking are two distinct experiences. Mind wandering occurs when the mind moves from ...

Participants were intermittently asked three questions about their level of mind wandering, and later had to complete the ASRT task 30 times in "blocks". After every block, they were asked ...

The study, by Mr. Matthew Killingsworth and Dr. Daniel Gilbert at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., was titled "A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind." ...

Mind wandering is an intriguing phenomenon—the average person spends up to 50% of their waking hours in this semi-dreamlike state. While it is notorious for undermining performance on tasks ...