Absence without leave or leave without absence: Examining the interrelations among mind wandering, metacognition and cognitive control
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Absence without leave or leave without absence: Examining the interrelations among mind wandering, metacognition and cognitive control. / Drescher, Leonhard Hakon; Van den Bussche, Eva; Desender, Kobe.
In: PLOS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2018, p. e0191639.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Absence without leave or leave without absence: Examining the interrelations among mind wandering, metacognition and cognitive control
AU - Drescher, Leonhard Hakon
AU - Van den Bussche, Eva
AU - Desender, Kobe
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Despite the abundance of recent publications about mind wandering (i.e., off-task thought), its interconnection with metacognition and cognitive control has not yet been examined. In the current study, we hypothesized that these three constructs would show clear interrelations. Metacognitive capacity was predicted to correlate positively with cognitive control ability, which in turn was predicted to be positively related to resistance to mind wandering during sustained attention. Moreover, it was expected that participants with good metacognitive capacity would be better at the subjective recognition of behaviorally present mind wandering. Three tasks were used: The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) to measure mind wandering, a perceptual decision task with confidence ratings to measure metacognitive efficiency, and a conflict task to measure cognitive control. Structural Equation Modelling was used to test the interrelations among the three constructs. As expected, metacognitive efficiency was positively related to cognitive control ability. Surprisingly, there was a negative relation between metacognitive efficiency and the degree to which subjective mind wandering reports tracked the behavioral index of mind wandering. No relation was found between cognitive control and behavioral mind wandering. The results of the current work are the first to shed light on the interrelations among these three constructs.
AB - Despite the abundance of recent publications about mind wandering (i.e., off-task thought), its interconnection with metacognition and cognitive control has not yet been examined. In the current study, we hypothesized that these three constructs would show clear interrelations. Metacognitive capacity was predicted to correlate positively with cognitive control ability, which in turn was predicted to be positively related to resistance to mind wandering during sustained attention. Moreover, it was expected that participants with good metacognitive capacity would be better at the subjective recognition of behaviorally present mind wandering. Three tasks were used: The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) to measure mind wandering, a perceptual decision task with confidence ratings to measure metacognitive efficiency, and a conflict task to measure cognitive control. Structural Equation Modelling was used to test the interrelations among the three constructs. As expected, metacognitive efficiency was positively related to cognitive control ability. Surprisingly, there was a negative relation between metacognitive efficiency and the degree to which subjective mind wandering reports tracked the behavioral index of mind wandering. No relation was found between cognitive control and behavioral mind wandering. The results of the current work are the first to shed light on the interrelations among these three constructs.
KW - Absenteeism
KW - Attention
KW - Humans
KW - Metacognition
KW - Task Performance and Analysis
KW - Journal Article
KW - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0191639
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0191639
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 29425205
VL - 13
SP - e0191639
JO - PLOS ONE
JF - PLOS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 2
ER -