Do meditators have higher awareness of their intentions to act?

Jo, Han-Gue; Hinterberger, Thilo; Wittmann, Marc; Schmidt, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.015

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“…the authors further found that meditators displayed earlier awareness of motor intentions than nonmeditators, which is consistent with research suggesting that meditation and mindfulness are associated with superior metacognition (Jo, Hinterberger, Wittmann, & Schmidt, 2015) and thus are qualitatively distinct from hypnosis (Dienes, Lush, Semmens-Wheeler, & Naish, 2016 (Christoff, Gordon, Smallwood, Smith, & Schooler, 2009;Mason et al, 2007), including metacognitive judgments pertaining to the sense of agency (Miele, Wager, Mitchell, & Metcalfe, 2011). Cumulatively, these results suggest a critical role for metacognition in hypnotic responding although further research is required to determine the specificity of atypical metacognition in highly suggestible individuals and the specific features of the hypnotic context and individual suggestions that interact with atypical metacognition to produce distortions in the sense of agency during hypnotic responding.…”

Section: Agency and Metacognitionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Hypnosis and top-down regulation of consciousness

Terhune

Cleeremans

Raz

et al. 2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Hypnosis is a unique form of top-down regulation in which verbal suggestions are capable of eliciting pronounced changes in a multitude of psychological phenomena. Hypnotic suggestion has been widely used both as a technique for studying basic science questions regarding human consciousness but also as a method for targeting a range of symptoms within a therapeutic context. Here we provide a synthesis of current knowledge regarding the characteristics and neurocognitive mechanisms of hypnosis. We review evidence from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychopathology, and clinical psychology regarding the utility of hypnosis as an experimental method for modulating consciousness, as a model for studying healthy and pathological cognition, and as a therapeutic vehicle. We also highlight the relationships between hypnosis and other psychological phenomena, including the broader domain of suggestion and suggestibility and conclude by identifying the most salient challenges confronting the nascent cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis and outlining future directions for research on hypnosis and suggestion.

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Section: Agency and Metacognitionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Hypnosis and top-down regulation of consciousness

Terhune

Cleeremans

Raz

et al. 2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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165

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“…A contribution to the understanding of inter-individual differences in the MRCP comes from a study by Jo et al (2015) that compared experienced meditators to controls, and found that meditators are more able than controls to access the emergence of negative deflections of slow cortical potentials, which could have fundamental effects on initiating a voluntary movement with awareness.…”

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confidence: 98%

Beyond the “Bereitschaftspotential”: Action preparation behind cognitive functions

Russo

Berchicci

Bozzacchi

et al. 2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Hypnotic suggestibility is negatively associated with mindfulness and meditators display reduced or average hypnotic suggestibility (Semmens-Wheeler & Dienes, 2012;Spanos, Steggles, Radtke-Bodorik, & Rivers, 1979). Meditators seem to have greater awareness of motor intentions (Jo, Hinterberger, Wittmann, & Schmidt, 2015) whereas HS individuals seem to have delayed awareness of such intentions (Lush, Naish, & Dienes, 2016). Reducing meta-awareness may also enhance suggestibility (Brown, Antonova, Langley, & Oakley, 2001).…”

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Metacognition of agency is reduced in high hypnotic suggestibility

Terhune

Hedman

2017

Cognition

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A disruption in the sense of agency is the primary phenomenological feature of response to hypnotic suggestions but its cognitive basis remains elusive. Here we tested the proposal that distorted volition during response to suggestions arises from poor metacognition pertaining to the sources of one's control. Highly suggestible and control participants completed a motor task in which performance was reduced through surreptitious manipulations of cursor lag and stimuli speed. Highly suggestible participants did not differ from controls in performance or metacognition of performance, but their sense of agency was less sensitive to cursor lag manipulations, suggesting reduced awareness that their control was being manipulated. These results indicate that highly suggestible individuals have aberrant metacognition of agency and may be a valuable population for studying distortions in the sense of agency.

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Do meditators have higher awareness of their intentions to act?

Cited by 43 publications

References 36 publications

Hypnosis and top-down regulation of consciousness

Hypnosis and top-down regulation of consciousness

Beyond the “Bereitschaftspotential”: Action preparation behind cognitive functions

Metacognition of agency is reduced in high hypnotic suggestibility

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