Interference between Decision-Making and Mind-Wandering

Student: Kisliczy`n Ruslan

Supervisor: Boris V. Chernyshev

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

<p>This study examines the interference between decision-making and so-called “mind-wandering” phenomenon. Decision-making process is considered in the framework of Kahneman’s resource theory of attention. The term “mind-wandering” is described and some problems in studying one are illustrated. Anatomy and function of default mode system is described and some issues are illustrated by studying one. The methodology of the correlational experiment is composed and  its findings are discussed</p>

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