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Spontaneous Thought And Goal Pursuit: From Functions Such As Planning To Dysfunctions Such As Rumination, Eric Klinger, Ernest H.W. Koster, Igor Marchetti
Spontaneous Thought And Goal Pursuit: From Functions Such As Planning To Dysfunctions Such As Rumination, Eric Klinger, Ernest H.W. Koster, Igor Marchetti
Psychology Publications
Spontaneous thoughts occur by default in the interstices between directed, task-oriented thoughts or moments of perceptual scrutiny. Their contents are overwhelmingly related to thinkers’ current goals, either directly or indirectly via associative networks, including past and future goals. Their evocation is accompanied by emotional responses that vary widely in type, valence, and intensity. Given these properties of thought flow, spontaneous thoughts are highly adaptive as (1) reminders of the individual’s larger agenda of goals while occupied with pursuing any one of them, (2) promotion of planning for future goal pursuits, (3) deeper understanding of past goal-related experiences, and (4) development …
Rats (Rattus Norvegicus) Flexibly Retrieve Objects’ Non-Spatial And Spatial Information From Their Visuospatial Working Memory: Effects Of Integrated And Separate Processing Of These Features In A Missing-Object Recognition Task, Corrine Nicole Keshen, Jerome Cohen
Rats (Rattus Norvegicus) Flexibly Retrieve Objects’ Non-Spatial And Spatial Information From Their Visuospatial Working Memory: Effects Of Integrated And Separate Processing Of These Features In A Missing-Object Recognition Task, Corrine Nicole Keshen, Jerome Cohen
Psychology Publications
After being trained to find a previous missing object within an array of four different objects, rats received occasional probe trials with such test arrays rotated from that of their respective three-object study arrays. Only animals exposed to each object’s non-spatial features consistently paired with both its spatial features (feeder’s relative orientation and direction) in the first experiment or with only feeder’s relative orientation in the second experiment (Fixed Configuration groups) were adversely affected by probe trial test array rotations. This effect, however, was less persistent for this group in the second experiment but re-emerged when objects’ nonspatial features were …