{"pk":26678,"title":"Mind Wandering during Film Comprehension: The Role of Prior Knowledge andSituational Interest","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We assessed mind wandering (MW) during film comprehension. We predicted that prior-knowledge would aid in theconstruction of a situation model of the film, which would suppress MW by directing attention towards task-related thoughts,and that interest would moderate this effect. In our experiment, 108 participants either read a short story that depicted the plot(i.e., prior-knowledge condition) or read an unrelated story of equal length (control condition) prior to viewing the 32.5 minutefilm The Red Balloon. Participants self-reported their interest in viewing the film immediately before the film presentationand reported self-caught instances of MW while viewing the film. The prior-knowledge condition reported less MW comparedto the control condition. MW also decreased over the course of the film, but only for the prior-knowledge condition, therebysuggesting a suppression effect. Finally, prior-knowledge effects on MW were only observed when interest was average orhigh.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gv9w800","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sidney","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dmello","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Notre Dame","department":""},{"first_name":"Kris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kopp","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Notre Dame","department":""},{"first_name":"Caitlin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mills","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Notre Dame","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26678/galley/16314/download/"}]}