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79Blindsight in action: What can the different sub-types of blindsight tell us about the control of visually guided actions?Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 29 (7): 1035-1046. 2005.
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43In search of boredom: beyond a functional accountTrends in Cognitive Sciences 27 (5): 494-507. 2023.Boredom has been characterized as a crisis of meaning, a failure of attention, and a call to action. Yet as a self-regulatory signal writ-large, we are still left with the question of what makes any given boredom episode meaningless, disengaging, or a prompt to act. We propose that boredom is an affective signal that we have deviated from an optimal (‘Goldilocks’) zone of cognitive engagement. Such deviations may be due to a perceived lack of meaning, arise as a consequence of struggles we are e…Read more
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31Cognitive and affective predictors of boredom pronenessCognition and Emotion 31 (8): 1741-1748. 2017.Boredom proneness has been linked to various forms of cognitive and affective dysregulation including poor self-control and mind-wandering, as well as depression and aggression. As such, understanding boredom and the associated cognitive and affective components of the experience, represents an important first step in combatting the consequences of boredom for psychological well-being. We surveyed 1928 undergraduate students on measures of boredom proneness, self-control, MW, depression and aggr…Read more
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27A self-regulatory approach to understanding boredom pronenessCognition and Emotion 30 (8). 2016.
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26The Effects of Prior Learned Strategies on Updating an Opponent's Strategy in the Rock, Paper, Scissors GameCognitive Science 38 (7): 1482-1492. 2014.To explore how model building adapts to changing environments, we had participants play “rock-paper-scissors” against a computer that played a frequency bias or a player-dependent bias and then switched. Participants demonstrated their use of prior experience in how quickly they recognized and exploited changes in the computer's play strategy; in general, the more similar the strategies, the more efficient the updating. These findings inform our understanding of previously reported updating impa…Read more
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17Spatial Working Memory Deficits Represent a Core Challenge for Rehabilitating NeglectFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 7. 2013.
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14Perceptions of Control Influence Feelings of BoredomFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Conditions of low and high perceived control often lead to boredom, albeit for different reasons. Whereas, high perceived control may be experienced as boring because the situation lacks challenge, low perceived control may be experienced as boring because the situation precludes effective engagement. In two experiments we test this proposed quadratic relationship. In the first experiment we had participants play different versions of the children's game “rock-paper-scissors” in which they arbit…Read more
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14Boredom: Managing the Delicate Balance Between Exploration and ExploitationIn Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), Boredom is in Your Mind: A Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach, Springer Verlag. pp. 37-53. 2019.Boredom is Functional. Simplistically, it operates as a signal to do something other than what you are doing now. But it is more nuanced than that. Animals must strike a balance between two competing drives: to explore one’s environs for resources and to exploit those resources once found. Boredom may provide the signal to switch between Exploitation and Exploration, minimizing Opportunity costs. Evidence from behavioral and Genetic studies suggests a particular profile of the high boredom prone…Read more
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12A Primer on the Role of Boredom in Self-Controlled Sports and Exercise BehaviorFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Self-control is critical for successful participation and performance in sports and therefore has attracted considerable research interest. Yet, knowledge about self-control remains surprisingly incomplete and inconsistent. Here, we draw attention to boredom as an experience that likely plays an important role in sports and exercise (e.g., exercise can be perceived as boring but can also be used to alleviate boredom). Specifically, we argue that studying boredom in the context of sports and exer…Read more
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11Statistical Learning Impairments as a Consequence of StrokeFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 12. 2018.
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11Deficits in reflexive covert attention following cerebellar injuryFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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10Rich environments, dull experiences: how environment can exacerbate the effect of constraint on the experience of boredomCognition and Emotion 34 (7): 1517-1523. 2020.We examined the hypothesis that boredom is likely to occur when opportunity costs are high; that is, when there is a high potential value of engaging in activities other than the researcher-assigne...
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10Boredom and Media MultitaskingFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks involves media. Across two studies, we investigated one potential trigger of media multitasking, state boredom, and its relation to media multitasking. To this end, we manipulated participants’ levels of state boredom using video mood inductions prior to administering an attention-demanding 2-back task during which participants could media multitask by playing a task-irrelevant video. We also exam…Read more
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1“You’re on ten, where can you go from there?” Tufnel problems in repeated experiential judgmentsConsciousness and Cognition 42 311-324. 2016.
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Attention, motor control and motor imagery in schizophrenia: implications for the role of the parietal cortexSchizophrenia Research 70 (2-3): 241-61. 2004.