Communication training was undertaken within a study the prime purpose of which is to determine the influence of light levels on rhythms and patterns of wandering behavior in a nursing home sample of cognitively impaired individuals. The purpose of this training was to control variance in the social environment of an experimental lounge since it is posited that a number of environmental influen...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a remarkable philologist-philosopher while remaining in a condition of ill-health. Issues about his wandering/disruptive behavior that might be a consequence and/or protection against his cognitive decline and multifaceted disease are presented. The life complex that raises speculations about its etiology is constituted by: insight, creativity and wandering b...

Mind-wandering is closely connected with negative mood. Whether negative mood is a cause or consequence of mind-wandering remains an important, unresolved, issue. We sought to clarify the direction of this relationship by measuring mood before and after mind-wandering. We also measured the affective content, time-orientation and relevance of mind-wandering to current concerns to explore whether...

The Harris-Luck criterion judges the relevance of ~potentially! spatially correlated, quenched disorder induced by, e.g., random bonds, randomly diluted sites, or a quasiperiodicity of the lattice, for altering the critical behavior of a coupled matter system. We investigate the applicability of this type of criterion to the case of spin variables coupled to random lattices. Their aptitude to a...

Do you recognize the experience of being distracted by your own thoughts? Your answer is very likely to be ‘yes’. Indeed, a self-report study by Killingsworth and Gilbert (2010) has shown that people spent on average half of their daily activities on thought processes that distract them from their current task. This phenomenon is commonly known as mind-wandering and refers to a process of self-...

People often "mind wander" during everyday tasks, temporarily losing track of time, place, or current task goals. In laboratory-based tasks, mind wandering is often associated with performance decrements in behavioral variables and changes in neural recordings. Such empirical associations provide descriptive accounts of mind wandering - how it affects ongoing task performance - but fail to prov...

Mind wandering seems to be a prototypical feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, an important emerging distinction of mind-wandering types hinges on whether a given episode of mind wandering reflects a failure of executive control (spontaneous mind wandering) or the engagement of controlled processes for internal processing (deliberate mind wandering). Here we dist...

Mind wandering seems to be a prototypical feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, an important emerging distinction of mind-wandering types hinges on whether a given episode of mind wandering reflects a failure of executive control (spontaneous mind wandering) or the engagement of controlled processes for internal processing (deliberate mind wandering). Here we dist...

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders among school-age children. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate impact transdiagnostic therapy on children with ADHD who also had behavioral-emotional and experienced excessive mind wandering. Methods: quasi-experimental utilized a pretest-posttest design control group. The sta...