@article{ref1,
title="Conducting the train of thought: working memory capacity, goal neglect, and mind wandering in an executive-control task",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="2009",
author="McVay, Jennifer C. and Kane, Michael J.",
volume="35",
number="1",
pages="196-204",
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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="10.1037/a0014104",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014104"
}