Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations.
There is growing evidence that the intermittent nature of mind wandering episodes and mood have a pronounced influence on trial-to-trial variability in performance. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and significance of such lapses in attention remains inadequately understood. Here, we hypothesize...
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| author | Mona Irrmischer C Natalie van der Wal Huibert D Mansvelder Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen |
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| description | There is growing evidence that the intermittent nature of mind wandering episodes and mood have a pronounced influence on trial-to-trial variability in performance. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and significance of such lapses in attention remains inadequately understood. Here, we hypothesize that the dynamics of fluctuations in sustained attention between external and internal sources of information obey so-called critical-state dynamics, characterized by trial-to-trial dependencies with long-range temporal correlations. To test this, we performed behavioral investigations measuring reaction times in a visual sustained attention task and cued introspection in probe-caught reports of mind wandering. We show that trial-to-trial variability in reaction times exhibit long-range temporal correlations in agreement with the criticality hypothesis. Interestingly, we observed the fastest responses in subjects with the weakest long-range temporal correlations and show the vital effect of mind wandering and bad mood on this response variability. The implications of these results stress the importance of future research to increase focus on behavioral variability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df5b122172964078ae5e60f982650d6d2022-12-21T19:15:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01135e019690710.1371/journal.pone.0196907Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations.Mona IrrmischerC Natalie van der WalHuibert D MansvelderKlaus Linkenkaer-HansenThere is growing evidence that the intermittent nature of mind wandering episodes and mood have a pronounced influence on trial-to-trial variability in performance. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and significance of such lapses in attention remains inadequately understood. Here, we hypothesize that the dynamics of fluctuations in sustained attention between external and internal sources of information obey so-called critical-state dynamics, characterized by trial-to-trial dependencies with long-range temporal correlations. To test this, we performed behavioral investigations measuring reaction times in a visual sustained attention task and cued introspection in probe-caught reports of mind wandering. We show that trial-to-trial variability in reaction times exhibit long-range temporal correlations in agreement with the criticality hypothesis. Interestingly, we observed the fastest responses in subjects with the weakest long-range temporal correlations and show the vital effect of mind wandering and bad mood on this response variability. The implications of these results stress the importance of future research to increase focus on behavioral variability.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5945053?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Mona Irrmischer C Natalie van der Wal Huibert D Mansvelder Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. PLoS ONE |
| title | Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. |
| title_full | Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. |
| title_fullStr | Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. |
| title_short | Negative mood and mind wandering increase long-range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations. |
| title_sort | negative mood and mind wandering increase long range temporal correlations in attention fluctuations |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5945053?pdf=render |
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