Benjamin Baird
Biographic Data
| ID | 9299177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Baird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Baird |
| SIGNATURE | BAIRD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8541-0508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep
Consciousness isn’t all-or-none
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering
Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide variety of contexts, training one’s ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad enhancement of performance. In a randomized controlled investigation, we examined whether a 2-week mindfulness-training course would decrease mind wandering and improve cognitive performance. Mindfulness training improved both GRE reading-comprehension scores …
Unnoticed intrusions
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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Back to the future
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…
Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering
Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide variety of contexts, training one’s ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad enhancement of performance. In a randomized controlled investigation, we examined whether a 2-week mindfulness-training course would decrease mind wandering and improve cognitive performance. Mindfulness training improved both GRE reading-comprehension scores …
Unnoticed intrusions
Consciousness isn’t all-or-none
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep
Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mind wandering and attention (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Mind-wandering (4 works) · Consciousness (3 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (3 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (2 works)