Lab Research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Publications (2014-2016)
Ralph, B. C. W., & Smilek, D. (in press). Individual differences in media multitasking and performance on the N-Back. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1260-y
Ralph, B. C. W., Wammes, J. D., Barr, N., & Smilek, D. (in press). Wandering minds and wavering goals: Examining the relation between mind wandering and grit in everyday life, the laboratory, and the classroom. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Thomson, D.R., Besner, D., & Smilek, D. (2016). A critical assessment of the evidence for sensitivity loss in modern vigilance tasks. Psychological Review, 123, 70-83.
Seli, P., Risko, E.F., Smilek, D., & Schacter, D.L. (2016). Mind-wandering with and without intention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 605-617.
Cheyne, J. A., Bonin, T., Wright, C., Carriere, J. S., Danckert, J., & Smilek, D. (2016). “You’re on ten, where can you go from there?” Tufnel problems in repeated experiential judgments. Consciousness and cognition, 42, 311-324.
Seli, P., Risko, E.F., & Smilek, D. (2016). On the necessity of distinguishing between unintentional and intentional mind wandering. Psychological Science, 27, 685-691.
Bonin, T. & Smilek, D. (2016). Inharmonic music elicits more negative affect and interferes more with a concurrent cognitive task than does harmonic music. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78, 946-959.
Seli, P., Risko, E.F., & Smilek, D. (2016). Assessing the associations among trait and state levels of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering. Consciousness and Cognition, 41, 50-56.
Wammes, J. D., Seli, P., Cheyne, J. A., Boucher, P. O., & Smilek, D. (2016). Mind wandering during lectures II: Relation to academic performance. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 33-48.
Wammes, J. D., Boucher, P.O., Seli, P., Cheyne, J.A., & Smilek, D. (2016). Mind wandering during lectures I: Changes in rates across an entire semester. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 13-32.
Phillips, N.E., Ralph, B.C.W., Carriere, J.S.A., & Smilek, D. (2016). Examining the influence of saliency of peer-induced distractions on direction of gaze and lecture recall. Computer & Education, 99, 81-93.
Ralph, B.C.W., Onderwater, K., Thomson, D.R., & Smilek, D. (2016). Disrupting monotony while increasing demand: Benefits of rest and intervening tasks on vigilance. Psychological Research, DOI: 10.1007/s00426-016-0752-7.
Seli, P., Risko, E.F., Purdon, C. & Smilek, D. (2016). Intrusive thoughts: Linking spontaneous mind wandering and OCD symptomology. Psychological Research, DOI 10.1007/s00426-016-0756-3.
Seli, P., Wammes, J. D., Risko, E. F. R., & Smilek, D. (2015). On the relation between motivation and retention in educational contexts: The role of intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI 10.3758/s13423-015-0979-0
Seli, P., Cheyne, J. A., Xu, M., Purdon, C., & Smilek, D. (2015). Motivation and mind wandering: Implications for assessments of task-unrelated thought. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41, 1417-1425.
Seli, P., Jonker, T. R., Cheyne, J. A., Cortes, K., & Smilek, D. (2015). Can research participants comment authoritatively on the validity of their self-reports of mind wandering and task engagement? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 41, 703-709.
Seli, P., Carriere, J.S.A., & Smilek, D. (2015). Not all mind wandering is created equal: Dissociating deliberate from spontaneous mind wandering. Psychological Research, 79, 750-758.
Thomson, D.R., Besner, D., & Smilek, D. (2015). Reducing the vigilance decrement: The effects of perceptual variability. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 386-397. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.010.
Seli, P., Smallwood, J. Cheyne, J.A., & Smilek, D. (2015). On the relation of mind wandering and ADHD symptomology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 629-636.
Thomson, D.R., Besner, D., & Smilek, D. (2015). A resource control account of sustained attention: Evidence from mind wandering and vigilance paradigms. Perspectives on Psychological Science,10, 82-96. DOI: 10.1177/1745691614556681.
Ralph, B.C.W., Thomson, D.R., Seli, P., Carriere, J.S.A., & Smilek D. (2015). Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 390-401. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0771-7.
Thomson, D.R., Ralph, B.C.W., Besner, D., & Smilek, D. (2015). The more the mind wanders, the smaller the attentional blink: An individual difference study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 181-191.
Nelson, A., Purdon, C., Quigley, L., Carriere, J.S.A., & Smilek D. (2015). Distinguishing the roles of trait and state anxiety on the nature of anxiety-related attentional biases to threat using a free viewing eye movement paradigm. Cognition and Emotion, 29, 504-526.
Thomson, D., Seli, P., Besner, D., & Smilek, D. (2014). On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time. Consciousness and Cognition, 27, 14 – 26.
Chrisholm, J. D., Chapman C. S., Amm, M., Bischof, W. F., Smilek, D., & Kingstone, A. (2014). A cognitive ethology study of first- and third-person perspectives. PLOS ONE, 9, 3, e92696, 1-10.
Ralph, B.C.W., Seli, P., Cheng, V., Solman, G., & Smilek, D. (2014). Running the figure to the ground: Figure-ground segmentation during visual search. Vision Research, 97, 65-73.
Solman, G.J.F., Hickey, K., & Smilek, D. (2014). Comparing target detection errors in visual search and manually-assisted search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 945-958.
Ralph, B.CW., Thomson, D.R., Cheyne, J.A., & Smilek, D. (2014). Media multitasking and failures of attention in everyday life. Psychological Research, 78, 661-669.
Seli, P., Carriere, J.S.A., Thomson D.R., Cheyne, J.A., Ehgoetz-Martens, K.A., & Smilek, D. (2014). Restless mind, restless body. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 660-668.
Thomson, D., Smilek, D., & Besner, D. (2014). On asymmetric effects of mind-wandering on levels of processing at encoding and retrieval. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21, 728-733.