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    "pk": 28848,
    "title": "Tracking the wandering mind: Memory, mouse movementsand decision making styles",
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    "abstract": "Mind wandering involves internally focused attention, and isoften conceptualized as the opposite of external attention thatis oriented towards the task at hand. Individuals vary ac-cording to the amount they mind wander as well as with re-gards to the pattern of oscillations between mind wanderingthoughts and externally directed, focused thought. Assumingthat mind wandering is influenced by episodic contents, we ex-plore the proposition that mind wandering frequency is relatedto the manner in which individuals deal with the contents ofepisodic memory, as reflected by a maximizing decision mak-ing style. Based on previous studies measuring cognitive pro-cesses, we assume that mouse trajectories towards a particu-lar response on the screen are continuously updated by time-dependent and temporally-dynamic cognitive processes. Asa behavioral methodology, mouse tracking provides potentialcues to help predict mind wandering. In our experiment, a to-tal of 274 students completed a decision making questionnaire,episodic and associative memory tests (during which mousemovements were recorded) and a working memory task, dur-ing which mind wandering thoughts were assessed. We foundcertain mouse movement characteristics to be significantly pre-dictive of mind wandering. Also, a maximizing decision mak-ing style appeared to be related to a particular type of mindwandering, namely, task-related interference.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "mind wandering; episodic memory; mouse-tracking; decisionmaking; maximizing"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mariana",
            "middle_name": "Rachel",
            "last_name": "Dias da Silva",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Postma",
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            "institution": "Tilburg University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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