Tag: Seli

  • Nation & World

    When wandering minds are just fine

    While most of the psychological literature calls mind wandering a detrimental “failure of executive control” or a “dysfunctional cognitive state,” a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there’s no harm in it.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Minding the details of mind wandering

    A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.

    5 minutes