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Research paper thumbnail of Tracking attentional states: Assessing the relationship between sustained and selective focused attention in visual working memory

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2022

We have no conflict of interest to disclose. This research was supported by a grant from the Velu... more We have no conflict of interest to disclose. This research was supported by a grant from the Velux Foundation to A. S. Souza (project n° 1053). This research was presented on the Virtual Working Memory Symposium 2020, as a poster at the virtual 61 st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, and is shared as a poster on ResearchGate.

Research paper thumbnail of Validating Mind-Wandering Self-Reports With Objective Performance Measures: Seniors' Reports are Comparable to Younger Adults

Research paper thumbnail of Validity of attention self-reports in younger and older adults

Human attention is subject to fluctuations. Mind-wandering (MW) - attending to thoughts unrelated... more Human attention is subject to fluctuations. Mind-wandering (MW) - attending to thoughts unrelated to the current task demands - is considered a ubiquitous experience. According to the Control Failure x Concerns view (McVay & Kane, 2010), MW is curbed by executive control, and task-irrelevant thoughts enter consciousness due to attentional control lapses. The generation of off-task thoughts is assumed to increase with higher number of personal concerns. Challenging this view, older adults report less MW than younger adults. Here, we addressed the hypothesis that older adults report less MW due to a lower ability to notice attention lapses and to appraise their current on-task focus. In an age-comparative study (N = 40 younger and N = 44 older adults) using a battery of three tasks spanning working memory, reading comprehension, and sustained attention, we assessed the correlation between the degree of self-reported on-task focus and task performance on a trial-by-trial basis. Younger...

Research paper thumbnail of Tracking attentional states: Assessing the relationship between sustained and selective focused attention in visual working memory

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2022

We have no conflict of interest to disclose. This research was supported by a grant from the Velu... more We have no conflict of interest to disclose. This research was supported by a grant from the Velux Foundation to A. S. Souza (project n° 1053). This research was presented on the Virtual Working Memory Symposium 2020, as a poster at the virtual 61 st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, and is shared as a poster on ResearchGate.

Research paper thumbnail of Validating Mind-Wandering Self-Reports With Objective Performance Measures: Seniors' Reports are Comparable to Younger Adults

Research paper thumbnail of Validity of attention self-reports in younger and older adults

Human attention is subject to fluctuations. Mind-wandering (MW) - attending to thoughts unrelated... more Human attention is subject to fluctuations. Mind-wandering (MW) - attending to thoughts unrelated to the current task demands - is considered a ubiquitous experience. According to the Control Failure x Concerns view (McVay & Kane, 2010), MW is curbed by executive control, and task-irrelevant thoughts enter consciousness due to attentional control lapses. The generation of off-task thoughts is assumed to increase with higher number of personal concerns. Challenging this view, older adults report less MW than younger adults. Here, we addressed the hypothesis that older adults report less MW due to a lower ability to notice attention lapses and to appraise their current on-task focus. In an age-comparative study (N = 40 younger and N = 44 older adults) using a battery of three tasks spanning working memory, reading comprehension, and sustained attention, we assessed the correlation between the degree of self-reported on-task focus and task performance on a trial-by-trial basis. Younger...

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