Complex sentence: When investigating how mind wandering affects retention of important information, experiments are conducted where participants are asked a variety of questions about factual information, or deducible information while reading a detective novel along with being asked about the state of their mind before the questions are asked.
Split into simpler sentences: When investigating how mind wandering affects retention of information, experiments are conducted where participants are asked a variety of questions about factual information, or deducible information while reading a detective novel. Participants are also asked about the state of their mind before the questions are asked.