Fig. 1From: When there is noise on Sherlock Holmes: mind wandering increases with perceptual processing difficulty during reading and listeningStory-presentation and thought-probing procedure. Note In both (noise and no-noise) visual conditions, the participants were presented with the novella’s written text subunit by subunit until a thought probe appeared. In both (noise and no-noise) auditory conditions, the participants were presented with the audio recording of the novella with each listening unit being followed by a thought probe. After a thought probe, in all conditions, the story presentation continued. It is apparent that each listening unit comprised several reading subunits and thought probes appeared at the same text positions for all conditionsBack to article page