{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Liu S"],"funding":["Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"],"pagination":["e0279532"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9879536"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>If our attention wanders to other thoughts while making a decision, then the decision might not be directed towards future goals, reflecting a lack of model-based decision making, but may instead be driven by habits, reflecting model-free decision making. Here we aimed to investigate if and how model-based versus model-free decision making is reduced by trait spontaneous mind wandering.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We used a sequential two-step Markov decision task and a self-report questionnaire assessing trait spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering propensity, to investigate how trait mind wandering relates to model-free as well as model-based decisions. We estimated parameters of a computational neurocognitive dual-control model of decision making. Analyzing estimat"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["Spontaneous mind wandering impairs model-based decision making."],"pmcid":["PMC9879536"],"funding_grant_id":["491466077","grant number FOR 1617, subproject 3, Modelling learning, SCHA 1971/1-2 to DJS"],"pubmed_authors":["Rabovsky M","Liu S","Schad DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Spontaneous mind wandering impairs model-based decision making.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>If our attention wanders to other thoughts while making a decision, then the decision might not be directed towards future goals, reflecting a lack of model-based decision making, but may instead be driven by habits, reflecting model-free decision making. Here we aimed to investigate if and how model-based versus model-free decision making is reduced by trait spontaneous mind wandering.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We used a sequential two-step Markov decision task and a self-report questionnaire assessing trait spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering propensity, to investigate how trait mind wandering relates to model-free as well as model-based decisions. We estimated parameters of a computational neurocognitive dual-control model of decision making. Analyzing estimat","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023","modification":"2025-04-25T20:11:17.749Z","creation":"2025-04-06T08:18:46.239Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9879536","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36701316"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0279532"]}}