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SCHEDULE.

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:30​

Kalina Christoff :: Mind wandering is a dynamic concept: The insufficiency of content-based approaches

9:30 - 10:00

Paul Seli :: What does (and should) "mind wandering" mean?

10:00 - 10:30

Discussion

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30

Jonathan Smallwood :: Searching for the elements of thought: a component process account of the mind wandering state

KEYNOTE

11:30 - 12:00

Nathan Spreng :: Self-generated thought and the external world: A necessary interaction

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion

Lunch*

1:15 - 1:45

Jonathan Schooler :: The neural and creative consequences of mind wandering

*Please note lunch is on your own.

1:45 - 2:15

Todd Handy :: Mind wandering and mental mobility

​2:15 - 2:45

Julia Kam :: Neural mechanisms underlying internally-directed attention

​2:45 - 3:15

Discussion

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:00

Jessica Andrews-Hanna :: Where's my mind? Content, consequences, and correlates of daily thinking patterns

4:00 - 4:30

Dan Smilek :: Some surprising findings about mind wandering and inattention during undergraduate lectures

4:30 - 5:00

Discussion

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