Conducting the Train of Thought: Working Memory Capacity, Goal Neglect, and Mind Wandering in an Executive-Control Task

Autor/inn/en	McVay, Jennifer C.; Kane, Michael J.
Titel	Conducting the Train of Thought: Working Memory Capacity, Goal Neglect, and Mind Wandering in an Executive-Control Task
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35 (2009) 1, S.196-204 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Attention Control; Cognitive Processes; Task Analysis; Responses; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufgabenanalyse; Vorhersage
Abstract	On the basis of the executive-attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC; e.g., M. J. Kane, A. R. A. Conway, D. Z. Hambrick, & R. W. Engle, 2007), the authors tested the relations among WMC, mind wandering, and goal neglect in a sustained attention to response task (SART; a go/no-go task). In 3 SART versions, making conceptual versus perceptual processing demands, subjects periodically indicated their thought content when probed following rare no-go targets. SART processing demands did not affect mind-wandering rates, but mind-wandering rates varied with WMC and predicted goal-neglect errors in the task; furthermore, mind-wandering rates partially mediated the WMC-SART relation, indicating that WMC-related differences in goal neglect were due, in part, to variation in the control of conscious thought. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10