How the stimulus influences mind wandering in semantically rich task contexts

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 2 Pairwise-comparisons between the frequencies of thought categories across participants using Wilcoxon’s signed rank test for paired samples

		Effect size r = \( \frac{Z}{\surd \left({n}_x+{n}_y\right)} \) of the difference
	Mean (SD)	Prospection	Autobiographical memory	Semantic memory	Stimulus	Task-related interferences	Unspecified memory	Fantasies	Environment
Introspection	2.34 (2.86)	0.062	0.056	0.069	0.193	0.284^*	0.403^*	0.484^*	0.474^*
Prospection	2.32 (2.25)		0.072	0.093	0.201	0.284^*	0.430^*	0.491^*	0.469^*
Autobiographical memory	2.03 (2.41)			0.029	0.111	0.226	0.355^*	0.446^*	0.385^*
Semantic memory	1.90 (2.44)				0.107	0.178	0.331^*	0.396^*	0.372^*
Stimulus	1.43 (1.95)					0.107	0.235	0.341^*	0.334^*
Task-related interferences	1.14 (1.98)						0.139	0.267^*	0.274^*
Unspecified memory	0.65 (0.92)							0.153	0.124
Fantasies	0.43 (0.89)								0.004
Environment	0.39 (0.79)

Rows and columns are ordered by mean (greatest to smallest; top-bottom and left-right). ^* represents statistical significance at α = 0.001 (Bonferroni correction for 36 comparisons)