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The benefits of mind wandering on a naturalistic prospective memory task

Psychology

The benefits of mind wandering on a naturalistic prospective memory task

J. C. Girardeau, R. Ledru, et al.

Mind wandering — often future-oriented — may help people remember planned actions, and past-oriented daydreams might boost that ability. In an immersive virtual-walk study of 60 participants, high mind-wandering frequency predicted better prospective memory overall; spontaneous past-oriented MW aided retrospective retrieval for pre-encoded event-based items, while spontaneous future-oriented MW aided prospective retrieval. The research was conducted by J. C. Girardeau, R. Ledru, A. Gaston-Bellegarde, P. Blondé, M. Sperduti, and P. Piolino.... show more
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