The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering
To examine the effects of cannabis on mind-wandering, regular cannabis smokers of legally purchased pre-rolls took part in a three-session remote study. In each 30-min session participants completed three blocks of an attention task in which they pressed the spacebar in time with a metronome tone (t...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Elsevier
2025-02-01
|
| Series: | Heliyon |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025012927 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1850078875204190208 |
|---|---|
| author | Adrian Berk Safati Wisam Almohamad Alkheder Cassandra Justine Lowe Daniel Smilek |
| author_facet | Adrian Berk Safati Wisam Almohamad Alkheder Cassandra Justine Lowe Daniel Smilek |
| author_sort | Adrian Berk Safati |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | To examine the effects of cannabis on mind-wandering, regular cannabis smokers of legally purchased pre-rolls took part in a three-session remote study. In each 30-min session participants completed three blocks of an attention task in which they pressed the spacebar in time with a metronome tone (the Metronome Response Task), and intermittently reported their levels of spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering. Performance on the Metronome Response Task was indexed through response time variability, with greater response variability indicating poorer performance. Following an initial ‘baseline’ block, participants were instructed to mind-wander either 20 % or 80 % of the time in the second and third blocks (counterbalanced). Critically, the first and third sessions were scheduled on days of planned abstention while the second session immediately followed the (planned) use of cannabis (an ABA design). In the baseline blocks we found that cannabis use is associated with a large increase in spontaneous mind-wandering, a smaller increase in deliberate mind-wandering, and impaired task performance. When participants were instructed to mind-wander 20 % or 80 % of the time, cannabis use reduced instruction-related changes in deliberate mind-wandering and task performance, suggesting an impairment of the regulation of mind-wandering. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-67aa1300ff514699bcd96ec1112f586d |
| institution | DOAJ |
| issn | 2405-8440 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2025-02-01 |
| publisher | Elsevier |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Heliyon |
| spelling | doaj-art-67aa1300ff514699bcd96ec1112f586d2025-08-20T02:45:25ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402025-02-01114e4291110.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42911The effects of cannabis on mind-wanderingAdrian Berk Safati0Wisam Almohamad Alkheder1Cassandra Justine Lowe2Daniel Smilek3Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada; Corresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W., Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, University of Exeter, United KingdomDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo, CanadaTo examine the effects of cannabis on mind-wandering, regular cannabis smokers of legally purchased pre-rolls took part in a three-session remote study. In each 30-min session participants completed three blocks of an attention task in which they pressed the spacebar in time with a metronome tone (the Metronome Response Task), and intermittently reported their levels of spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering. Performance on the Metronome Response Task was indexed through response time variability, with greater response variability indicating poorer performance. Following an initial ‘baseline’ block, participants were instructed to mind-wander either 20 % or 80 % of the time in the second and third blocks (counterbalanced). Critically, the first and third sessions were scheduled on days of planned abstention while the second session immediately followed the (planned) use of cannabis (an ABA design). In the baseline blocks we found that cannabis use is associated with a large increase in spontaneous mind-wandering, a smaller increase in deliberate mind-wandering, and impaired task performance. When participants were instructed to mind-wander 20 % or 80 % of the time, cannabis use reduced instruction-related changes in deliberate mind-wandering and task performance, suggesting an impairment of the regulation of mind-wandering.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025012927AttentionMind-wanderingSustained attentionThought controlExecutive controlExperience sampling |
| spellingShingle | Adrian Berk Safati Wisam Almohamad Alkheder Cassandra Justine Lowe Daniel Smilek The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering Heliyon Attention Mind-wandering Sustained attention Thought control Executive control Experience sampling |
| title | The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering |
| title_full | The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering |
| title_fullStr | The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering |
| title_short | The effects of cannabis on mind-wandering |
| title_sort | effects of cannabis on mind wandering |
| topic | Attention Mind-wandering Sustained attention Thought control Executive control Experience sampling |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025012927 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT adrianberksafati theeffectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT wisamalmohamadalkheder theeffectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT cassandrajustinelowe theeffectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT danielsmilek theeffectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT adrianberksafati effectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT wisamalmohamadalkheder effectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT cassandrajustinelowe effectsofcannabisonmindwandering AT danielsmilek effectsofcannabisonmindwandering |