Process of Thought

Summary: This study examines whether the intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering are one and the same dimension or two distinct dimensions, within a broader context of research on spontaneously emerging thought. Its analysis bears on how metacognition and attention shape the classification and understanding of mind-wandering experiences.

Summary: This study examines whether intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering represent a single construct or distinct dimensions, addressing how these aspects of task-unrelated thought relate to metacognitive monitoring. The findings contribute to understanding the processes underlying spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering and their assessment.

Summary: This fMRI study examines how mind-wandering arises during both externally and internally focused attention tasks, showing that distractions depend on stimulus salience and repetition, thereby illuminating the neural and cognitive control of default modes of thought.

Summary: This study examines whether financial incentives can increase meta-awareness of mind wandering, addressing the challenge that people rarely notice their own task-unrelated thoughts. The findings inform understanding of metacognitive processes and attention regulation.

Summary: This paper argues that belief is best understood as the outcome of multiple processes, including rational updating and heuristic evidence evaluation, and proposes a hierarchical framework to localize irrationality in belief formation.

Summary: This entry examines whether intentionality and meta-awareness are distinct dimensions of mind wandering, presenting initial evidence that they are dissociable and thereby contributing to a more nuanced understanding of spontaneous thought.

Summary: This study examines how transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases the propensity for mind-wandering without altering meta-awareness, contributing to the understanding of spontaneous thought processes and the dynamics of attention.

Summary: This doctoral thesis examines David Bohm's distinction between thinking and thought, arguing that genuine creative thinking fosters freedom, while habitual thought leads to fragmentation and arbitrariness in scientific knowledge. It explores Bohm's use of metaphor and analogy to illuminate how affective bonds and contexts shape a physicist's worldview, and traces the enduring influence of these ideas on contemporary research.