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This study reframes mind-wandering research by examining reading not just as information processing, but as a complex cognitive activity. It suggests a new framework, enculturated predictive processing, to better understand the interplay between reading and mind-wandering.

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Background:

Mind-wandering research often uses reading as a task, contrasting it with task-related cognitive processes.
Previous models viewed reading primarily through information processing and situation model construction.
Recent work seeks a more nuanced understanding beyond a simple dichotomy of focused cognition versus mind-wandering.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a new framework for understanding the relationship between reading and mind-wandering.
To move beyond traditional information processing accounts of reading in mind-wandering research.
To integrate insights from literary studies and enculturated predictive processing to enrich the study of mind-wandering.

Main Methods:

Conceptualizing reading and mind-wandering through the lens of enculturated predictive processing.
Analyzing how literary texts and reading styles influence cognitive involvement and potential mind-wandering.
Considering how texts can elicit mind-wandering by constructing virtual scenarios.

Main Results:

Reading is a multifaceted activity with diverse phenomenological and functional signatures, not solely information processing.
Enculturated predictive processing highlights readers' shifting stances and the text's role in evoking cognitive states.
Literary texts can feature characters who mind-wander or employ styles that impede situation model construction, potentially inducing mind-wandering.

Conclusions:

A more complex account of reading enriches the understanding of mind-wandering as a multi-dimensional phenomenon.
Studying mind-wandering benefits from closer attention to the reading process and the nature of textual stimuli.
The enculturated predictive processing framework enables more precise questions about types of mind-wandering, reading modes, and their interconnections.