PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Konu, Delali
AU  - Mckeown, Brontë
AU  - Turnbull, Adam
AU  - Ho, Nerissa Siu Ping
AU  - Vanderwal, Tamara
AU  - McCall, Cade
AU  - Tipper, Steven P.
AU  - Jefferies, Elizabeth
AU  - Smallwood, Jonathan
TI  - Exploring patterns of ongoing thought under naturalistic and task-based conditions
AID  - 10.1101/2020.07.29.226431
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.07.29.226431
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/07/30/2020.07.29.226431.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/07/30/2020.07.29.226431.full
AB  - Previous research suggests that patterns of ongoing thought are heterogeneous, varying across situations and individuals. The current study investigated the influence of a wide range of tasks and individual affective style on ongoing patterns of thought. In total, we used 9 different tasks and measured ongoing thought using multidimensional experience sampling. A Principle Component Analysis of the experience sampling data revealed four patterns of ongoing thought. Linear Mixed Modelling was used to examine the contextual distribution of the thought patterns. Different thought patterns were found to relate to different types of conditions. Intrusive and negative thought pattern expression was found to be influenced by individual affective style (depression level). Overall, these data show that patterns of thought are subject to both contextual and intrinsic variation, suggesting that understanding these important features of experience across a broad range of situations will be useful in understanding their role in human experience.HighlightsPatterns of thought vary across different task contextsThought pattern expression is influenced by individual affective styleThere is a need to broaden the tasks used to study ongoing thoughtCompeting Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.