"(Marcusson et al., 2016, p. 453).
The method used to prove their hypothesis was a series of tests administered by the experimenters. The participants included one hundred and eleven students; 41 of which were male and 70 were female, whose ages ranged from 18 to 41 years old. They were mostly undergraduate students from Lund University and each gave informed consent. Sustained Attention to Response Task, or SART, the Automated symmetry span task, or SSPAN, the color-word Stroop test, the Short Imaginal Processes Inventory, or SIPI, and the Experience Sampling Program, as well as an administered questionnaire after certain tests, are the ways in which experimenters investigated their hypothesis. The independent variables were the tests that were administered, and the dependent variables were how the participants mind wandering impacted performance in daily life and the laboratory. The experimenters conducted the experiment through two separate sessions one consisted of, first the Stroop test, then the SIPI and finally the automated SSPAN. The second session consisted of "the second version of the Stroop task, followed by the Dissociative Experiences Scale and the SART" (Marcusson-Clavertz et al., 2016, p. 456). The experimenters concluded that working memory capacity is associated with mind wandering based on its negative daydreaming style while cognitive inhibition and mind wandering are related through a positive daydreaming style. This research shows that executive processes are affected by the content of the daydream and the context in which the mind wandering is occurring. (Marcusson-Clavertz et al., 2016) .
In an article entitled "Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain," from The New York Times, written by Daniel J. Levitin, the benefits of daydreaming in daily life are discussed. Levitin describes how the brain's daydreaming mode plays a significant role in problem-solving.
