Attentional processes and meditation

Hodgins, Holley S.; Adair, Kathryn C.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.04.002

Cited by 180 publications

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“…The development of mindfulness is associated with an improvement in various cognitive abilities such as sustained attention [40], selective attention [14], and executive function [44]. However, few studies have demonstrated an overall positive effect of mindfulness training on memory performance.…”

Section: Mindfulness and True Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Relationship between Trait Mindfulness and False Memory: A Bilingual Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm

Yeh¹,

Lu²

2017

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Mindfulness-based interventions are known to increase false memory. However, high trait mindfulness is associated with an external encoding style and field independence, which in turn are associated with low false memory. The present study used a bilingual context to disentangle these contrasting findings. Sixty ChineseEnglish bilinguals completed a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false recognition task and were evaluated using the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). Results showed negative and positive correlations between trait mindfulness and false recognition in Chinese-Chinese and Chinese-English conditions, respectively. The polar directions of the observed correlations suggest that trait mindfulness is associated with direct and analytical perception of objects and with cognitive flexibility in activating semantic information. The former improves source monitoring, whereas the latter increases the likelihood of generating false memories in the DRM paradigm.

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Section: Mindfulness and True Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Relationship between Trait Mindfulness and False Memory: A Bilingual Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm

Yeh¹,

Lu²

2017

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“…Empirical studies seem to support the thesis that mindfulness training enhances attention (see for a review Chiesa et al, 2011). Empirical evidence outside the sporting context suggests that mindfulness training improves selective attention (Chan & Woollacott, 2007;Jensen, Vangkilde, Frokjaer, & Hasselbalch, 2012;van den Hurk, Giommi, Gielen, Speckens, & Barendregt, 2010), sustained attention (Chambers, Lo, & Allen, 2008;Valentine & Sweet, 1999), orienting attention (Jensen et al, 2012;Moore & Malinowski, 2009) as well as attention flexibility (Hodgins & Adair, 2010). Furthermore, studies in neuroscience show that regular mindfulness meditation leads to structural changes in brain regions which are associated with attention regulation such as the anterior cingulate cortex (Cahn & Polich, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Athletes

Jekauc¹,

Kittler²,

Schlagheck³

2017

PSYCH

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Recently, several top athletes, as well as coaches, have revealed that mindfulness can be regarded as a type of psychological training to optimize performance. Indeed, results of studies in clinical psychology, as well as neuroscience, suggest that mindfulness might be an effective strategy to promote concentration, emotion regulation and state of flow. However, the empirical evidence in the context of sport is rather sparse. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention in athletes. In a randomized controlled trial with 22 participants in the experimental and 24 participants in the control group, the effectiveness of the Berlin Mindfulness-based Training for Athletes (BATL) was tested and compared to a classical sport psychological intervention. The results of an analysis of covariance with repeated measures indicate that the intervention group significantly improved mindfulness as a trait compared to the control group. It can be concluded that BATL is an effective strategy to increase mindfulness in athletes. However, further studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention in improving performance and to be able to examine its effect mechanisms.

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“…Carter et al (2005) found that individuals trained in meditation could measurably alter their experience of perceptual rivalry. Furthermore, long-term meditators show higher performance in the domains of sustained attention (Valentine & Sweet, 1999), executive attention (D. Chan & Woollacott, 2007;van den Hurk, Giommi, Gielen, Speckens, & Barendregt, 2010), and attention switching (Hodgins & Adair, 2010) as compared to matched controls. Studies investigating the effect of a 10-day and a 4-day mindfulness retreats respectively (Chambers, Lo, & Allen, 2008;Zeidan, Johnson, Diamond, David, & Goolkasian, 2010) revealed improvement in working memory capacity in meditators following the retreats.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%