Julia W Y Kam
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia W Y Kam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia W Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Kam |
| SIGNATURE | KAM J W Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2369-2148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The effects of partial sleep deprivation on mind wandering, executive performance and affect
Insufficient sleep is a common occurrence in modern society and has severe consequences for our attention, executive functioning (EF), and affect. Mind wandering (MW) is a phenomenon where attention shifts from an external task to internal thoughts. These shifts can take on different characteristics, such as relating to specific mental content or not (mind blanking, MB), and can be engaged deliberately (D-MW) or spontaneously (S-MW). MW is relate…
Methodological considerations for ecological momentary assessment measures of task-unrelated and freely moving thoughts
A brief reappraisal intervention leads to durable affective benefits
People who report frequently using cognitive reappraisal to decrease the impact of potentially upsetting situations report better affective functioning than people who report using cognitive reappraisal less frequently. However, most work linking everyday reappraisal use to affective outcomes has been correlational, making causal inference difficult. In this study, we examined whether 2 weeks of daily practice of reappraising negatively valenced …
Momentary awareness of body sensations is associated with concurrent affective experience
Affect is thought to be a low-dimensional representation of ongoing body activity. Recent studies have demonstrated that individual differences in the ability to objectively detect one's body activity are related to affective experience, particularly the experience of affective arousal. However, less is known about the role of subjective awareness of body sensations in affective experience, a facet of interoception that has been distinguished fro…
On the relationship between unprompted thought and affective well-being
There is a growing recognition that thoughts often arise independently of external demands. These thoughts can span from reminiscing your last vacation to contemplating career goals to fantasizing about meeting your favorite musician. Often referred to as mind wandering, such frequently occurring unprompted thoughts have widespread impact on our daily functions, with the dominant narrative converging on a negative relationship between unprompted …
Differential relationships between thought dimensions and momentary affect in daily life
Daily mindfulness training reduces negative impact of Covid-19 news exposure on affective well-being
Gender bias in academia
Default network and frontoparietal control network theta connectivity supports internal attention
Differential recruitment of executive resources during mind wandering
Inspired by Distraction
Although anecdotes that creative thoughts often arise when one is engaged in an unrelated train of thought date back thousands of years, empirical research has not yet investigated this potentially critical source of inspiration. We used an incubation paradigm to assess whether performance on validated creativity problems (the Unusual Uses Task, or UUT) can be facilitated by engaging in either a demanding task or an undemanding task that maximize…
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Inspired by Distraction
Although anecdotes that creative thoughts often arise when one is engaged in an unrelated train of thought date back thousands of years, empirical research has not yet investigated this potentially critical source of inspiration. We used an incubation paradigm to assess whether performance on validated creativity problems (the Unusual Uses Task, or UUT) can be facilitated by engaging in either a demanding task or an undemanding task that maximize…
Differential recruitment of executive resources during mind wandering
Default network and frontoparietal control network theta connectivity supports internal attention
Gender bias in academia
Daily mindfulness training reduces negative impact of Covid-19 news exposure on affective well-being
Differential relationships between thought dimensions and momentary affect in daily life
A brief reappraisal intervention leads to durable affective benefits
People who report frequently using cognitive reappraisal to decrease the impact of potentially upsetting situations report better affective functioning than people who report using cognitive reappraisal less frequently. However, most work linking everyday reappraisal use to affective outcomes has been correlational, making causal inference difficult. In this study, we examined whether 2 weeks of daily practice of reappraising negatively valenced …
Momentary awareness of body sensations is associated with concurrent affective experience
Affect is thought to be a low-dimensional representation of ongoing body activity. Recent studies have demonstrated that individual differences in the ability to objectively detect one's body activity are related to affective experience, particularly the experience of affective arousal. However, less is known about the role of subjective awareness of body sensations in affective experience, a facet of interoception that has been distinguished fro…
On the relationship between unprompted thought and affective well-being
There is a growing recognition that thoughts often arise independently of external demands. These thoughts can span from reminiscing your last vacation to contemplating career goals to fantasizing about meeting your favorite musician. Often referred to as mind wandering, such frequently occurring unprompted thoughts have widespread impact on our daily functions, with the dominant narrative converging on a negative relationship between unprompted …
The effects of partial sleep deprivation on mind wandering, executive performance and affect
Insufficient sleep is a common occurrence in modern society and has severe consequences for our attention, executive functioning (EF), and affect. Mind wandering (MW) is a phenomenon where attention shifts from an external task to internal thoughts. These shifts can take on different characteristics, such as relating to specific mental content or not (mind blanking, MB), and can be engaged deliberately (D-MW) or spontaneously (S-MW). MW is relate…
Methodological considerations for ecological momentary assessment measures of task-unrelated and freely moving thoughts
Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Mind wandering and attention (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Executive functions (2 works)