Conjoint Influence of Mind-wandering and Sleepiness on Task Performance was a study conducted by psychologist David Stawarczyk and Arnaud D’Argembeau from the University of Liege. Their primary focus on this study was to understand the influence that mind-wandering and sleepiness have on task performance. They found that this question was important as both mind-wandering and daytime sleepiness seemed to co-occur. In order to investigate that question they examined the comparison between the two during a laboratory task and collected estimates of the frequencies of mind wandering and sleep-related disturbances in everyday life. In order to evaluate the impact of mind-wandering a sleepiness on task performance they used the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) in which they implanted
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They began with a total of 95 participants all of which were either undergraduates or graduate students. The recorded mean sleep duration of the participants in the 7 days prior to the testing session was 7.15 hours. The task starts off by presenting the participants with numbers between one and nine that were sequentially in the center of the laptop screen. They were asked to react as fast and correctly as possible by pressing the space bar on the computer except when presented with the number three. They were shown a total of 560 numbers. Each number block was instantly followed by the KSS that interrupted the test and would ask how they felt prior to the interruption. After the KSS participants were then asked to explain the ongoing conscious experience they had before the interruption. The task continued on to provide a short text that was displayed to the
They began with a total of 95 participants all of which were either undergraduates or graduate students. The recorded mean sleep duration of the participants in the 7 days prior to the testing session was 7.15 hours. The task starts off by presenting the participants with numbers between one and nine that were sequentially in the center of the laptop screen. They were asked to react as fast and correctly as possible by pressing the space bar on the computer except when presented with the number three. They were shown a total of 560 numbers. Each number block was instantly followed by the KSS that interrupted the test and would ask how they felt prior to the interruption. After the KSS participants were then asked to explain the ongoing conscious experience they had before the interruption. The task continued on to provide a short text that was displayed to the