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Research
Latest papers
The Effects of Anticipating Metacognitive Judgments about Mind-Wandering.
Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026 · senior author
Author Correction: Attention in hindsight: Using stimulated recall to capture dynamic fluctuations in attentional engagement.
Behavior research methods · 2026 · senior author
Editorial: Advances in vigilance research: exploring novel theoretical models and analytical approaches on the analysis of the vigilance decrement.
Frontiers in cognition · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $120,000
Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $549,180
Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $245,000
Exploring the Basic Mechanisms Underlying Sustained Attention, Attention Lapses and Mind Wandering
NSERC · 2014 · Principal investigator
111 publications.
The Effects of Anticipating Metacognitive Judgments about Mind-Wandering.
Safati AB, Smilek D
Author Correction: Attention in hindsight: Using stimulated recall to capture dynamic fluctuations in attentional engagement.
Pereira EJ, Ayers-Glassey S, Wammes JD, Smilek D
Editorial: Advances in vigilance research: exploring novel theoretical models and analytical approaches on the analysis of the vigilance decrement.
Lupiáñez J, Luna FG, Smilek D
The costs of monitoring: Does self-catching the wandering mind influence task performance and/or residual probe-caught mind-wandering?
Safati AB, Seli P, Smilek D
The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering.
Safati AB, Alkheder WA, Lowe CJ, Smilek D
Attention in our digital ecosystem: The five interactive components that drive media multitasking.
Drody AC, Pereira EJ, Smilek D
Retrospective attention: Examining temporally specific retrospective reports of mind wandering and engagement during online video lectures.
Ayers-Glassey S, Pereira EJ, Wammes JD, Smilek D
Inattention over time-on-task: the role of motivation in mitigating temporal increases in media multitasking.
Drody AC, Pereira EJ, Danckert J, Smilek D
Attention in hindsight: Using stimulated recall to capture dynamic fluctuations in attentional engagement.
Pereira EJ, Ayers-Glassey S, Wammes JD, Smilek D
Mind wandering on command.
Safati AB, Carr TH, Lowe CJ, Smilek D
Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
Keywords: human attention; cognition; mind wandering; attention lapses; media multi-tasking; sustained attention; human error; consciousness
Exploring the Basic Mechanisms Underlying Sustained Attention, Attention Lapses and Mind Wandering
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
Basic mechanisms of human visual attention
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
An ERP laboratory for collaborative cognitive neuroscience research
Principal investigators: Fugelsang, Jonathan
Inferring attention in social situations: a cognitive ethology approach
Principal investigators: Kingstone, Alan
Keywords: cognitive ethology; inferring attention; social attention; exploration; eye monitoring; individual differences; meaning
Eye monitoring system for studying human attention
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
Basic mechanisms of visual attention
Principal investigators: Smilek, Daniel
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Daniel Smilek and derek besner: 6 shared papers
- Daniel Smilek and Christine Purdon: 5 shared papers
- Daniel Smilek and James Danckert: 4 shared papers
- Alan Kingstone and Daniel Smilek: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Smilek and Jonathan Carriere: 1 shared paper
- James Danckert and derek besner: 1 shared paper
- Jonathan Carriere and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
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- Behavioural Psychology
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