Mind-wandering is accompanied by both local sleep and enhanced processes of spatial attention allocation - Wienke C, Bartsch MV, Vogelgesang L, Reichert C, Hinrichs H, Heinze HJ, D ürschmid S.

Mind-wandering (MW) is a subjective, cognitive phenomenon, in which thoughts move away from the task toward an internal train of thoughts, possibly during phases of neuronal sleep-like activity (local sleep, LS). MW decreases cortical processing of externa...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news