A Dual-Process Perspective on Mindfulness, Memory, and Consciousness

The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Cognitive Intrusions, and Recollection: An ERP Study

“…This might indicate that mindfulness is not related to recollection (which is indexed by LPC) and that it does not enhance source memory, but rather predicts better recognition memory performance on the basis of familiarity, an automatic and nonspecific feeling of memory that can also support retrieval. This is consistent with a recent work by Rosenstreich and Ruderman (2017), who, in two studies, found that mindfulness was associated with familiaritybased "know" responses in the remember/know procedure (Study 2) and that one facet of mindfulness, i.e. observing, predicted rates of familiarity (Study 3).…”

Helping People by Being in the Present: Mindfulness Increases Prosocial Behavior

“…Participants in the mindfulness condition reported greater focus on their breath, body, and the present moment (M = 3.36, SD = 0.80) than those in the control condition (M = 3.00, Rosenstreich, 2016;Rosenstreich & Ruderman, 2017;Wilson et al, 2015;Winning & Boag, 2015). Our reasoning for choosing this prevalent control condition in two of our studies is that it replicates the baseline waking mental state (Mason et al, 2007) that adults have been found to experience on average 47% of the time (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010).…”

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“…This moderation effect may be interpreted as a differential contribution of two types of attentional processes underlying motor control; whereas the attentional cost score may represent the ability to allocate attentional resources directed towards ongoing concurrent tasks, the visual information score may represent the ability to attend to interoceptive signals and to employ them for maintaining balance [29]. Indeed, some support for this notion is found in evidence that physical activity performed mindfully may be more beneficial for the actor, compared to simple, mindless activity [1,30,31], and interoceptive attention may play a key role in executive control [29,32]. However, more research is needed in order to better understand the joint contribution of attentional resource availability and interoceptive attention, as manifested in movement, to executive control (for similar notion, see [33]).…”