Jonathan Smallwood

Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood
Born	Jonathan Smallwood; 13 October 1975; Wolverhampton
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Strathclyde
Known for	Mind-wandering
Spouse(s)	Helga Smallwood (née Reid)
	Scientific career
Thesis	Task Unrelated Thought:; Understanding the process of cognition (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Marc Obonsawin
Website	themindwanders.com

Jonathan Smallwood (born 1975) is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of York.[1] His research uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience to investigate the process by which the brain self generates thoughts not arising from perception, such as during the experience of mind-wandering and daydreaming.

Biography

Education

The grandson of Joey Smallwood's cousin, Jonathan "Jonny" Smallwood earned his BA (1996) and PhD (2002) from The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a lecturer in psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University (2002–2004) before traveling to the University of British Columbia as a post-doctoral researcher (2004–2006). From 2006 to 2008 he was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Aberdeen, after which Smallwood returned to North America to work with Jonathan Schooler as an assistant project scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2011 to 2013 he was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the Department of Social Neuroscience. Since August 2018, he has been a professor in psychology at the University of York.

Academic career

Smallwood has been a pioneer in the integration of cognitive neuroscience methodologies to the study of mind-wandering.[2]

Work

Smallwood proposes the decoupling hypothesis, referring to the observation that individuals report having no memory of what happened in the surrounding environment while preoccupied with their thoughts.[3] In 2006, the publication of "The Restless Mind"[2] discussed a psychological framework for controversies characterizing cognitive neuroscience research into mind-wandering through the end of the decade.

gollark: To be vaguely beeish, you could make it count all the characters in string 1, subtract 1 every time the corresponding one is encountered in string 2, and check if it's 0 at the end.

gollark: I prefer mine, because it doesn't repeat itself.

gollark: ```pythonentry = (lambda bee: lambda cryo, apioform: bee(cryo) == bee(apioform))(lambda apioform: list(sorted([x.lower() for x in apioform if x != " "])))```

gollark: The maze solving was doable easily with depth first search, which is what I did.

gollark: As planned.

References

"Jonathan Smallwood - Psychology, The University of York". York.ac.uk. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
Smallwood, J. & Schooler, J.W. (2006). The Restless Mind. Psychological Bulletin, 132(6), 946-958.
Smallwood, J., Obonsawin, M.C., & Heim, D. (2003) Task Unrelated Thought: the role of distributed processing. Consciousness and Cognition. 12(2), 169-189.

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[1] "Jonathan Smallwood - Psychology, The University of York". York.ac.uk. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.

[Smallwood2006-2] Smallwood, J. & Schooler, J.W. (2006). The Restless Mind. Psychological Bulletin, 132(6), 946-958.

[Smallwood2003-3] Smallwood, J., Obonsawin, M.C., & Heim, D. (2003) Task Unrelated Thought: the role of distributed processing. Consciousness and Cognition. 12(2), 169-189.