Measuring task set preparation versus mind wandering using pupillometry
| Autor: | Chad C. Moffitt, Jason M. Watson, Keith A. Hutchison, Frank Marchak, Katie Hart, Audrey V. B. Hood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Eye Movements Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Pupil Task (project management) Thinking Young Adult Task Performance and Analysis Mind-wandering Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Set (psychology) 05 social sciences Attentional control Eye movement Set Psychology Task analysis Female sense organs Psychology Pupillometry Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 46:280-295 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1285 0278-7393 |
| Popis: | We investigated participants' task set preparation by measuring changes in pupil diameter during a blank interval as they prepared for an easy (i.e., prosaccade) or difficult (i.e., antisaccade) trial. We used occasional thought probes to gauge "on-task" thoughts versus mind wandering. In both studies, participants' pupil diameters were larger when anticipating an antisaccade, relative to a prosaccade, trial. In contrast, their self-reported mind wandering depended upon whether the thought probes occurred after their target detection response (Experiment 1) or occurred in lieu of target detection (Experiment 2). In the latter case, self-reported mind wandering echoed the pupil diameter changes in demonstrating greater off-task behavior when preparing for a prosaccade trial. More important, trial type effects in pupil diameter emerged only when participants reported being "on-task," but disappeared during periods of mind wandering. These results demonstrate that changes in pupil diameter reflect the degree of preparatory control exerted for an upcoming trial, but only when attention is actively focused on the upcoming task. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). |
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