“…In our case, eye-movement measures and thought-probe responses were nested in target sentences and participants. Second, because mind wandering is known to become more likely, the more time is spent on a task (e.g., Foulsham et al, 2013;McVay & Kane, 2009;Rummel & Nied, 2017;Steindorf & Rummel, 2017), we also considered time on task as an additional predictor. Because, analogously to previous studies, a strong time-on-task effect was apparent in the present data, we decided, although this step was not preregistered, to detrend the present data (i.e., to remove the trend from a time series; Wang & Maxwell, 2015;Wu, Huang, Long, & Peng, 2007).…”