Insulation for Daydreams: A Role for Tonic Norepinephrine in the Facilitation of Internally Guided Thought

Orienting of attention, pupil size, and the norepinephrine system

(2011) Shai Gabay et al.   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Pupillometric Evidence for the Decoupling of Attention from Perceptual Input during Offline Thought

(2011) Jonathan Smallwood et al.   PLoS One

Pupil diameter tracks changes in control state predicted by the adaptive gain theory of locus coeruleus function

(2010) Mark S. Gilzenrat et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Slow Fluctuations in Attentional Control of Sensory Cortex

(2010) Julia W. Y. Kam et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Pupil Diameter Predicts Changes in the Exploration–Exploitation Trade-off: Evidence for the Adaptive Gain Theory

(2010) Marieke Jepma et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Does mind wandering reflect executive function or executive failure? Comment on Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008).

(2010) Jennifer C. McVay et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

(2010) M. A. Killingsworth et al.   SCIENCE

Conducting the train of thought: Working memory capacity, goal neglect, and mind wandering in an executive-control task.

(2009) Jennifer C. McVay et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now

(2008) N. Liberman et al.   SCIENCE

Going AWOL in the Brain: Mind Wandering Reduces Cortical Analysis of External Events

(2007) Jonathan Smallwood et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE