This study aimed to investigate potential academic and demographic correlates of task-unrelated images and thoughts (TUITs) during an ecologically valid lecture environment. It was hypothesised that TUIT frequency could differ among variances of age; gender; academic ability; self-reported interest; seating position; detail of note taking; and exam, assignment and overall course marks. The study involved 463 participants (split between three independent groups) attending a lecture on consciousness. Firstly, a demographic sheet addressed the potential variation among individuals using Likert scale response items. This was further evaluated after a TUIT frequency recording sheet indicated whether or not participants had experienced a TUIT during five probes that were scheduled throughout the lecture. The results concluded
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A possible limitation of this review were the studies which addressed potential functions of mind wandering which did not provide substantial causal evidence to support their concepts.This review aimed to structure the literature presented on mind wandering over the last 30 years by framing it in a new context that would influence its integration into main stream models of executive attention. The strength of this review was in how it provided an extensive framework for describing the existing empirical evidence on mind wandering through combining present views of executive control and meta awareness with assumptions from previous theoretical accounts. The studies included in this review concluded that during mind wandering, executive control becomes disengaged from the primary task and attention is divided between internal and external information, also referred to as decoupling. Furthermore, the failure of goal orientated processes directed at the primary task was observed and resulted in the impairment of performing complex working memory tasks during mind
A possible limitation of this review were the studies which addressed potential functions of mind wandering which did not provide substantial causal evidence to support their concepts.This review aimed to structure the literature presented on mind wandering over the last 30 years by framing it in a new context that would influence its integration into main stream models of executive attention. The strength of this review was in how it provided an extensive framework for describing the existing empirical evidence on mind wandering through combining present views of executive control and meta awareness with assumptions from previous theoretical accounts. The studies included in this review concluded that during mind wandering, executive control becomes disengaged from the primary task and attention is divided between internal and external information, also referred to as decoupling. Furthermore, the failure of goal orientated processes directed at the primary task was observed and resulted in the impairment of performing complex working memory tasks during mind