A primer on meta-awareness of mind wandering in schizotypy and schizophrenia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21533271 |
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| Authors | Anchal Garg (0000-0003-4564-9965, Bond University, corresponding author), Bruce D Watt (0000-0001-8777-3150, Bond University), Mohamad El Haj (0000-0001-7635-7557, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire), Ahmed A Moustafa (0000-0001-5971-273X, Bond University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 152-152 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-0727 • E-ISSN: 1430-2772 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00426-025-02172-7 |
| PMID | 41045301 |
| OpenAlex | W4414809448 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 78 |
During everyday life, our attention may drift away from immediate perceptual inputs to consider alternatives unrelated to the task at hand, which is known as mind wandering. At times, mind wandering may be accompanied by awareness of one’s attention having deviated from the ongoing task, often referred to as meta-awareness. However, mind wandering can also occur without individuals immediately noticing that their attention is off task. Importantly, little is known about mind wandering and meta-awareness, including their underlying content in schizotypy and schizophrenia. Here, in this narrative review, we synthesise the existing literature on mind wandering across the schizotypy-schizophrenia continuum. In doing so, we present the main proposal that there would be lower levels of meta-awareness of mind wandering in patients with schizophrenia as compared to healthy controls. We expect that meta-awareness of mind wandering would be negatively associated with schizophrenia symptomatology and multidimensional schizotypy traits. We also recommend examining mind wandering content in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, including links between multidimensional schizotypy and the contents of meta-awareness of mind wandering. Ultimately, we hope that our proposal will be empirically tested in future research and will provide a foundation to understand the diversity of mind wandering features in clinical populations as well as insights into potential new treatment avenues
Mind-wandering · Perception · Schizophrenia Spectrum · Schizotypy · Theory of mind · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Mind wandering and attention · Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Mind-wandering
Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering
Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind
Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness
Not all minds that wander are lost
Re-representing consciousness
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
Young and restless
The Science of Mind Wandering
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?
Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Conscious Processing
The costs and benefits of mind-wandering
When attention matters
Meta-awareness and the involuntary memory spectrum
Mind wandering in schizophrenia
Motivating meta-awareness of mind wandering
States of mind
The Relationships Between Multidimensional Schizotypy and Metacognitive Beliefs
Distinguishing how from why the mind wanders
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