Segmenting the stream of consciousness: the psychological correlates of temporal structures in the time series data of a continuous performance task.
Brain and Cognition February 1, 2008 Jonathan Smallwood, Merrill McSpadden, Bryan Luus et al.
Using principal component analysis, we examined whether structural properties in the time series of response time would identify different mental states during a continuous performance task. We examined whether it was possible to identify regular patterns which were present in blocks classified as lacking controlled processing, either behaviourally (as a failure to withhold a response to a...