{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,9]],"date-time":"2026-04-09T16:57:14Z","timestamp":1775753834485,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":36,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,1]],"date-time":"2026-04-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1775001600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,1]],"date-time":"2026-04-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1775001600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/legal\/tdmrep-license"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1771977600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100002341","name":"Research Council of Finland","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100002341","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Consciousness and Cognition"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,2]],"date-time":"2026-03-02T06:24:56Z","timestamp":1772432696000},"page":"104031","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"special_numbering":"C","title":["Eye movements reflect thought patterns while listening to literary narratives"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"140","author":[{"given":"Diane","family":"M\u00e9zi\u00e8re","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Johanna K.","family":"Kaakinen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jarkko","family":"Lehtola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Karin","family":"Kukkonen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jonathan","family":"Smallwood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jaana","family":"Simola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"388","DOI":"10.3758\/s13428-019-01237-x","article-title":"Gorilla in our midst: An online behavioural experiment builder","volume":"52","author":"Anwyl-Irvine","year":"2020","journal-title":"Behavior Research Methods"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"243","DOI":"10.1080\/15213269.2014.987400","article-title":"The transportation scale\u2013short form (TS\u2013SF)","volume":"18","author":"Appel","year":"2015","journal-title":"Media Psychology"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"874","DOI":"10.1080\/02699931.2023.2215974","article-title":"Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories","volume":"37","author":"Ballenghein","year":"2023","journal-title":"Cognition and Emotion"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"60","DOI":"10.1080\/15213269.2015.1121830","article-title":"When narrative transportation narrows attention: Changes in attentional focus during suspenseful film viewing","volume":"20","author":"Bezdek","year":"2017","journal-title":"Media Psychology"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.3758\/s13423-022-02141-w","article-title":"The relationship between mind wandering and reading comprehension: A meta-analysis","volume":"30","author":"Bonifacci","year":"2023","journal-title":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"49","DOI":"10.1016\/0005-7916(94)90063-9","article-title":"Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential","volume":"25","author":"Bradley","year":"1994","journal-title":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.18637\/jss.v080.i01","article-title":"brms: An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models using Stan","volume":"80","author":"B\u00fcrkner","year":"2017","journal-title":"Journal of Statistical Software"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"395","DOI":"10.32614\/RJ-2018-017","article-title":"Advanced Bayesian Multilevel Modeling with the R Package brms","volume":"10","author":"B\u00fcrkner","year":"2018","journal-title":"The R Journal"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.18637\/jss.v100.i05","article-title":"Bayesian Item Response Modeling in R with brms and Stan","volume":"100","author":"B\u00fcrkner","year":"2021","journal-title":"Journal of Statistical Software"},{"issue":"7","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"595","DOI":"10.1080\/0163853X.2020.1857619","article-title":"Lost in a story, detached from the Words","volume":"58","author":"Eekhof","year":"2021","journal-title":"Discourse Processes"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0055","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"134","DOI":"10.3758\/s13428-017-0857-y","article-title":"An automated behavioral measure of mind wandering during computerized learning","volume":"50","author":"Faber","year":"2018","journal-title":"Behavior Research Methods"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0060","first-page":"1201","article-title":"The eye\u2013mind wandering link: Identifying gaze indices of mind wandering across tasks","volume":"46","author":"Faber","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0065","article-title":"Reconsidering the mind-wandering reader: Predictive processing, probability designs, and enculturation","volume":"2648","author":"Fabry","year":"2019","journal-title":"Frontiers in Psychology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0070","article-title":"Experiencing narrative worlds: On the psychological activities of reading","author":"Gerrig","year":"1993","journal-title":"Routledge"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0075","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"701","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-3514.79.5.701","article-title":"The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives","volume":"79","author":"Green","year":"2000","journal-title":"Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0080","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.concog.2022.103303","article-title":"Extracting blinks from continuous eye-tracking data in a mind wandering paradigm","volume":"100","author":"Hollander","year":"2022","journal-title":"Consciousness and Cognition"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0085","unstructured":"Hustvedt, S. (2019). Muistoja tulevaisuudesta (K. Rikman, Suom.). Otava. (Alkuper\u00e4isteos julkaistu 2019)."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0090","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.16910\/jemr.13.3.6","article-title":"Fluctuation in pupil size and spontaneous blinks reflect story transportation","volume":"13","author":"Kaakinen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Eye Movement Research"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0095","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"67","DOI":"10.1515\/jlt-2024-2005","article-title":"Experiencing Literary Audiobooks: A Framework for Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of the Auditory Reception of Literature","volume":"18","author":"Kosch","year":"2024","journal-title":"Journal of Literary Theory"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0100","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"89","DOI":"10.1075\/ssol.4.1.05kui","article-title":"Exploring absorbing reading experiences: Developing and validating a self-report scale to measure story world absorption","volume":"4","author":"Kuijpers","year":"2014","journal-title":"Scientific Study of Literature"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0105","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"110","DOI":"10.1037\/aca0000321","article-title":"Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features","volume":"16","author":"Lange","year":"2022","journal-title":"Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0110","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"59","DOI":"10.1016\/j.concog.2017.07.009","article-title":"Microsaccade-rate indicates absorption by music listening","volume":"55","author":"Lange","year":"2017","journal-title":"Consciousness and cognition"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0115","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"997","DOI":"10.1080\/02699931.2023.2216445","article-title":"Emotions, fast and slow: Processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption","volume":"37","author":"Lei","year":"2023","journal-title":"Cognition and Emotion"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0120","first-page":"5","article-title":"emmeans: Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means","volume":"1","author":"Lenth","year":"2024","journal-title":"R package version"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0125","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.concog.2025.103918","article-title":"Do eye movements reflect readers\u2019 thoughts during reading? evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements","volume":"134","author":"M\u00e9zi\u00e8re","year":"2025","journal-title":"Consciousness and Cognition"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0130","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.concog.2023.103530","article-title":"Patterns of ongoing thought in the real world","volume":"114","author":"Mulholland","year":"2023","journal-title":"Consciousness and cognition"},{"issue":"7","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0135","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2311","DOI":"10.1002\/hbm.25789","article-title":"Introspection confidence predicts EEG decoding of self\u2010generated thoughts and meta\u2010awareness","volume":"43","author":"Polychroni","year":"2022","journal-title":"Human Brain Mapping"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0140","series-title":"R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing","author":"R Core Team","year":"2023"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0145","series-title":"psych: Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality Research","author":"Revelle","year":"2024"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0150","series-title":"Narrative as virtual reality: Immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media","author":"Ryan","year":"2001"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0155","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"479","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2018.03.010","article-title":"Mind-wandering as a natural kind: A family-resemblances view","volume":"22","author":"Seli","year":"2018","journal-title":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0160","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"63","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1749-818X.2010.00263.x","article-title":"Mind-wandering while reading: Attentional decoupling, mindless reading and the cascade model of inattention","volume":"5","author":"Smallwood","year":"2011","journal-title":"Language and Linguistic Compass"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0165","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-019-11764-y","article-title":"Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought","volume":"10","author":"Turnbull","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nature Communications"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0170","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2013.00892","article-title":"The way we encounter reading material influences how frequently we mind wander","volume":"4","author":"Varao Sousa","year":"2013","journal-title":"Frontiers in Psychology"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0175","first-page":"42","article-title":"In the lab and in the wild: How distraction and mind wandering affect attention and memory","volume":"3","author":"Varao-Sousa","year":"2018","journal-title":"Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031_b0180","article-title":"Is mind wandering reflected in microsaccade dynamics?","volume":"109109","author":"Valsecchi","year":"2025","journal-title":"Biological Psychology"}],"container-title":["Consciousness and Cognition"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1053810026000395?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1053810026000395?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,9]],"date-time":"2026-04-09T16:05:16Z","timestamp":1775750716000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1053810026000395"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"references-count":36,"alternative-id":["S1053810026000395"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031","relation":{},"ISSN":["1053-8100"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1053-8100","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Eye movements reflect thought patterns while listening to literary narratives","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Consciousness and Cognition","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.concog.2026.104031","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2026 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}],"article-number":"104031"}}