Paul Seli

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Paul Seli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Seli has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 38 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul Seli's work include Mind wandering and attention (59 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (32 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (22 papers). Paul Seli is often cited by papers focused on Mind wandering and attention (59 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (32 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (22 papers). Paul Seli collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Paul Seli's co-authors include Daniel Smilek, Daniel L. Schacter, Evan F. Risko, James Allan Cheyne, Jonathan S. A. Carriere, Roger E. Beaty, Jonathan Smallwood, Tanya R. Jonker, Jeffrey D. Wammes and Christine Purdon and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Paul Seli

77 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind: A Family-Resemblances View

2018 248 citations Paul Seli, Jonathan Smallwood et al. profile →
Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork

2023 68 citations Paul Seli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Seli Canada	38	3.8k	2.0k	513	395	308	79	4.3k
Artur Marchewka Poland	28	1.8k 0.5×	890 0.4×	455 0.9×	544 1.4×	556 1.8×	107	2.9k
Michael S. Franklin United States	24	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	729 1.4×	358 0.9×	412 1.3×	37	3.6k
Malia F. Mason United States	26	3.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	385 0.8×	227 0.6×	855 2.8×	47	4.3k
Emanuel Jauk Austria	32	2.6k 0.7×	3.3k 1.7×	751 1.5×	437 1.1×	962 3.1×	69	4.8k
Alexander P. Christensen United States	26	1.4k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	409 0.8×	189 0.5×	536 1.7×	77	2.8k
Paula T. Hertel United States	29	1.6k 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	634 1.2×	516 1.3×	331 1.1×	81	2.8k
Jonathan S. A. Carriere Canada	20	2.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	400 0.8×	215 0.5×	250 0.8×	34	2.6k
Ajay B. Satpute United States	30	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	441 0.9×	298 0.8×	1.2k 3.8×	59	4.0k
Benjamin Baird United States	24	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	688 1.3×	207 0.5×	309 1.0×	37	3.5k
Annekathrin Schacht Germany	35	3.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	207 0.4×	473 1.2×	877 2.8×	84	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Seli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Seli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Seli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Seli based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Paul Seli. Paul Seli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Brosowsky, Nicholaus P., et al.. (2025). Unconstrained thought as an individual-differences variable.. Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice. 1 indexed citations

Brosowsky, Nicholaus P., et al.. (2022). Creativity, Boredom Proneness and Well-Being in the Pandemic. Behavioral Sciences. 12(3). 68–68. 16 indexed citations

Barr, Nathaniel, et al.. (2022). Dual-modes of creative thought in the classroom: Implications of network neuroscience for creativity education.. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. 8(1). 79–89. 6 indexed citations

Stanley, Matthew L., et al.. (2022). Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 29(5). 1997–2007. 4 indexed citations

Brosowsky, Nicholaus P., et al.. (2021). Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic. Motivation and Emotion. 45(5). 631–640. 14 indexed citations

Stanley, Matthew L., Alyssa H. Sinclair, & Paul Seli. (2020). Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents. Journal of Personality. 88(6). 1196–1216. 31 indexed citations

Brosowsky, Nicholaus P., Samuel Murray, Jonathan W. Schooler, & Paul Seli. (2020). Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning. Cognition. 209. 104530–104530. 25 indexed citations

Beaty, Roger E., Paul Seli, & Daniel L. Schacter. (2018). Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 27. 22–30. 172 indexed citations

Maillet, David, Paul Seli, & Daniel L. Schacter. (2017). Mind-wandering and task stimuli: Stimulus-dependent thoughts influence performance on memory tasks and are more often past- versus future-oriented. Consciousness and Cognition. 52. 55–67. 33 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, Brandon C. W. Ralph, Evan F. Risko, et al.. (2017). Intentionality and meta-awareness of mind wandering: Are they one and the same, or distinct dimensions?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 24(6). 1808–1818. 46 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, David Maillet, Daniel Smilek, Jonathan M. Oakman, & Daniel L. Schacter. (2017). Cognitive aging and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.. Psychology and Aging. 32(4). 315–324. 46 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul. (2016). The Attention-Lapse and Motor Decoupling accounts of SART performance are not mutually exclusive. Consciousness and Cognition. 41. 189–198. 44 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, Jonathan Smallwood, James Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2015). On the relation of mind wandering and ADHD symptomatology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 22(3). 629–636. 170 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, Jeffrey D. Wammes, Evan F. Risko, & Daniel Smilek. (2015). On the relation between motivation and retention in educational contexts: The role of intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(4). 1280–1287. 111 indexed citations

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Ralph, Brandon C. W., et al.. (2014). Running the figure to the ground: Figure-ground segmentation during visual search. Vision Research. 97. 65–73. 3 indexed citations

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Thomson, David R., Paul Seli, Derek Besner, & Daniel Smilek. (2014). On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time. Consciousness and Cognition. 27. 14–26. 106 indexed citations

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Ralph, Brandon C. W., David R. Thomson, Paul Seli, Jonathan S. A. Carriere, & Daniel Smilek. (2014). Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 77(2). 390–401. 72 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, Tanya R. Jonker, James Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2013). Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 265–265. 50 indexed citations

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Jonker, Tanya R., Paul Seli, James Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2013). Performance reactivity in a continuous-performance task: Implications for understanding post-error behavior. Consciousness and Cognition. 22(4). 1468–1476. 26 indexed citations

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Seli, Paul, James Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2011). Attention failures versus misplaced diligence: Separating attention lapses from speed–accuracy trade-offs. Consciousness and Cognition. 21(1). 277–291. 69 indexed citations

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