@article{ref1,
title="Self-reflection and the temporal focus of the wandering mind",
journal="Consciousness and cognition",
year="2011",
author="Smallwood, Jonathan and Schooler, Jonathan W. and Turk, David J. and Cunningham, Sheila J. and Burns, Phebe and Macrae, C. Neil",
volume="20",
number="4",
pages="1120-1126",
abstract="Current accounts suggest that self-referential thought serves a pivotal function in the human ability to simulate the future during mind-wandering. Using experience sampling, this hypothesis was tested in two studies that explored the extent to which self-reflection impacts both retrospection and prospection during mind-wandering. Study 1 demonstrated that a brief period of self-reflection yielded a prospective bias during mind-wandering such that participants' engaged more frequently in spontaneous future than past thought. In Study 2, individual differences in the strength of self-referential thought - as indexed by the memorial advantage for self rather than other-encoded items - was shown to vary with future thinking during mind-wandering. Together these results confirm that self-reflection is a core component of future thinking during mind-wandering and provide novel evidence that a key function of the autobiographical memory system may be to mentally simulate events in the future.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8100",
doi="10.1016/j.concog.2010.12.017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.12.017"
}