Publications

Forthcoming / Preprints
The cognitive control dilemma: When strategies to reduce mind wandering both improve and impair reading comprehension
Brosowsky, N. P., Hay, R., Evans, N.
Preprint
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Are individual differences in 'unconstrained thought' meaningfully distinct from spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering?
Seli, P., Brosowsky, N. P., Ragnhildstveit, A., Carriere, J.S.A, & Smilek, D.
Preprint
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Memory-guided selective attention: Evidence for context-specific control using the trial-unique Stroop task
Souliere, S. & Brosowsky, N. P.
Preprint
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The "feeling" of inattention: A novel perspective on the mind wandering-ADHD link.
Yeo, L.T., Fernando, E. & Brosowsky, N. P.
Preprint
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2025
Unconstrained thought as an individual-differences variable.
Daniel, R., Brosowsky, N., Seli, P., & Meier, M. E.
Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.
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2024
Proactive and reactive cognitive control in the absence of learning and memory confounds: Evidence from a cross-modal trial-unique Stroop task
Brosowsky, N. P.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Jumping About: The Role of Mind-Wandering and Attentional Flexibility in Facilitating Creative Problem Solving
Brosowsky, N.P., Gross, M. E., Schooler, J. W., & Seli, P.
The Emergence of Insight, Cambridge University Press
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Harnessing dehumanization theory, modern media, and an intervention tournament to reduce support for retributive war crimes
Landry, A. P., Fincher, K., Barr, N., Brosowsky, N. P., Protzko, J., Ariely, D., & Seli, P.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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How do you know if you were mind wandering? Dissociating explicit memories of off task thought from subjective feelings of inattention
Mathews, N. K., Bin Faiz, U., & Brosowsky, N. P.
Open Mind
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What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity?
Murray, S., Liang, N., Brosowsky, N.P., & Seli, P.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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2023
Mind wandering, motivation, and task performance over time: Evidence that motivation insulates people from the negative effects of mind wandering
Brosowsky, N.P., Degutis, J., Esterman, M., Smilek, D., & Seli, P.
Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
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Examining the relation between mind wandering and unhealthy eating behaviours
Smith, A.C., Brosowsky, N.P., Caron, E., Seli, P., & Smilek, D.
Personality and Individual Differences
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2022
Creativity, boredom proneness and mental well-being in the pandemic
Brosowsky, N.P., Barr, N., Mugon, J., Scholer, A., Seli, P., & Danckert, J.
Behavioral Sciences
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On the relation between mind wandering, PTSD symptomology, and self-control
Brosowsky, N.P., Smith, A.C., Smilek, D., & Seli, P.
Consciousness and Cognition
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Re-examining the effect of motivation on intentional and unintentional task-unrelated thought: accounting for thought constraint produces novel results
Smith, A. C., Brosowsky, N.P., Ralph, B. C., Smilek, D., & Seli, P.
Psychological Research
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Fixation, flexibility, and creativity: The dynamics of mind wandering
Smith, A.P., Brosowsky, N.P., Daniel, R., Meier, M.E., & Seli, P.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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2021
Appealing to the cognitive miser: Using demand avoidance to modulate cognitive flexibility in cued and voluntary task switching
Brosowsky, N.P., & Egner, T.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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Contextual recruitment of selective attention can be updated via changes in task relevance
Brosowsky, N.P., & Crump, M. J.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning
Brosowsky, N.P., Murray, S., Schooler, J. W., & Seli, P.
Cognition
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Thought dynamics under task demands: Evaluating the influence of task difficulty on unconstrained thought
Brosowsky, N.P., Murray, S., Schooler, J. W., & Seli, P.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic
Brosowsky, N.P., Van Tilburg, W., Scholer, A. A., Boylan, J., Seli, P., & Danckert, J.
Motivation and Emotion
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Maladaptive emotional schemas and emotional functioning: Evaluation of an integrated model across two independent samples
Edwards, E. R., Liu, Y., Ruiz, D., Brosowsky, N.P., & Wupperman, P.
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
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2020
Teaching undergraduate students to read empirical articles: An evaluation and revision of the QALMRI method
Brosowsky, N.P., Parshina, O., Locicero, A., & Crump, M.J.C.
PsyArxiv
[OSF]
2019
Instance theory predicts information theory: Episodic uncertainty as a determinant of keystroke dynamics
Crump, M.J.C., Lai, W., & Brosowsky, N.P.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2018
Memory-guided selective attention: Single experiences with conflict have long-lasting effects on cognitive control
Brosowsky, N.P. & Crump, M.J.C.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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2017
Using the QALMRI Method to Scaffold Reading of Primary Sources
Brosowsky, N.P., & Parshina, O.
How We Teach Now: The GSTA Guide to Student-Centered Teaching
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Auditory statistical learning: Predictive frequency information affects the deployment of contextually-mediated attentional resources
Alards-Tomalin, D., Brosowsky, N.P. & Mondor, T.A.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
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Reproducing the location-based context-specific proportion congruent effect for frequency unbiased items: A reply to Hutcheon & Spieler (2016)
Crump, M.J.C., Brosowsky, N.P., & Milliken, B.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2016
Context-specific attentional sampling: Intentional control as pre-requisite for contextual control
Brosowsky, N.P., & Crump, M.J.C.
Consciousness and Cognition
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Multistable perception of ambiguous melodies and the role of musical expertise
Brosowsky, N.P., & Mondor, T.A.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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2014
Attentional capture by sound disappearance
Brosowsky, N.P., & Mondor, T.A.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
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