Ricerc@Sapienza

Mind wandering is characterized by the absence of cognitive focus on a task, due to interfering spontaneous mentation. Despite a
large number of investigations on mind wandering and mindfulness training in recent years, very few studies have directly
investigated the effects of mindfulness training on mind wandering. In this study, we originally investigated the effects of
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training on objective and subjective indices of mind wandering, by using the

Mind wandering (MW) has commonly been linked to bad scholastic performance; however, such association has rarely been investigated in the classroom. Moreover, in examining such association, motivational variables have been largely ignored

Background: The ability of the human brain to escape the here and now (mind wandering) can take functional (problem solving) and dysfunctional (perseverative cognition) routes. Although it has been proposed that only the latter may act as a mediator of the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease, both functional and dysfunctional forms of repetitive thinking have been associated with blood pressure (BP) reactivity of the same magnitude.