Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling

Louis Chitiz; Bronte Mckeown; Bridget Mulholland; Raven Wallace; Ian Goodall-Halliwell; Nerissa Siu Ping-Ho; Delali Konu; Giulia L. Poerio; Jeffrey Wammes; Michael Milham; Arno Klein; Elizabeth Jefferies; Robert Leech; Jonathan Smallwood

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2025.103853

Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling

Louis Chitiz^*, Bronte Mckeown, Bridget Mulholland, Raven Wallace, Ian Goodall-Halliwell, Nerissa Siu Ping-Ho, Delali Konu, Giulia L. Poerio, Jeffrey Wammes, Michael Milham, Arno Klein, Elizabeth Jefferies, Robert Leech, Jonathan Smallwood

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The goal of psychological research is to understand behaviour in daily life. Although lab studies provide the control necessary to identify cognitive mechanisms behind behaviour, how these controlled situations generalise to activities in daily life remains unclear. Experience-sampling provides useful descriptions of cognition in the lab and real world and the current study examined how thought patterns generated by multidimensional experience-sampling (mDES) generalise across both contexts. We combined data from five published studies to generate a common ‘thought-space’ using data from the lab and daily life. This space represented data from both lab and daily life in an unbiased manner and grouped lab tasks and daily life activities with similar features (e.g., working in daily life was similar to working memory in the lab). Our study establishes mDES can map cognition from lab and daily life within a common space, allowing for more ecologically valid descriptions of cognition and behaviour.

Original language	English
Article number	103853
Number of pages	15
Journal	Consciousness and cognition
Volume	131
Early online date	10 Apr 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103853
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2025

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Cognitive-neuroscience
Ecological momentary assessment
Ecological validity
Experience-sampling
Principal component analysis
Spontaneous thought

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