How long is now for mindfulness meditators?

Sauer, Sebastian; Lemke, Jana; Wittmann, Marc; Kohls, Niko; Mochty, Ursula; Walach, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.12.026

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“…Because attentional functions (e.g., alerting, selecting, and sustaining) can make information available to awareness, changes in attention with meditation are apt to influence conscious experience. Consistent with traditional meditation accounts (Thurman & Jamspal, 2004), meditative cognition entails more awareness of that which occurs in present moment experience (Dunne, 2011;Farb et al, 2007;Sauer et al, 2012). Numerous empirical findings corroborate this, such as reduced disruption of detection awareness by continued processing of a recent event (in an Attentional Blink paradigm; Slagter et al, 2007).…”

Section: Awareness In Meditationsupporting

confidence: 52%

“…investigation, the present-moment emphasis widely attributed to meditation (e.g., Dunne, 2011;Farb et al, 2007;Levinson et al, 2014;Sauer et al, 2012). ATI includes awareness of transient sensory information (e.g., subtle shifts in throbbing pain), as well as transient mental events (e.g., the flow of thought).…”

Section: We Thus Consider Awareness Of Transient Information (Ati) Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

Grossenbacher

Quaglia

2017

Mindfulness

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Mindfulness, whether distinguished as a state, trait, or training, is central to a growing wave of interest in meditation. Theoretical development has been called for in order to clarify confusion about mindfulness from a scientific perspective. Ideally, such development will allow ingress for more traditional perspectives, and guide inclusive research on the wider range of meditation practices. To address this call, we outline a new approach for understanding mindfulness and related meditative experience that accommodates diverse perspectives. In accord with other integrative approaches, we employ foundational psychological constructs (namely, attention, intention, and awareness) to understand mindfulness. In contrast to other theoretical perspectives, however, we utilize this foundation to derive novel psychological constructs needed to better explain mindfulness and important features of meditative experience more widely. The contemplative cognition framework integrates three attention-related processes

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Section: Awareness In Meditationsupporting

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Section: We Thus Consider Awareness Of Transient Information (Ati) Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

Grossenbacher

Quaglia

2017

Mindfulness

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“…These modulations in gamma activity are interpreted as reflecting an increase in selective attention (Fries, Reynolds, Rorie, & Desimone, 2001). The practice of the mindfulness technique has indeed been shown to improve individuals' attentional control skills, with meditators performing better on different attentional tasks than other participants who have never experienced meditation (e.g., attentional blink paradigm, d2) (e.g., Jha, Krompinger, & Baime, 2007;Moore & Malinowski, 2009;Sauer et al, 2012;Slagter et al, 2007). The question that we need to answer is therefore that of the real nature of the mechanisms (arousal or attention) underlying the effects of meditation on the perception of time.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mindfulness meditation and relaxation training increases time sensitivity

Droit‐Volet

Fanget

Dambrun

2015

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Indeed, researchers found that mindfulness meditation experts were able to stabilise a bistable image (the Necker Cube) for longer in comparison with non-meditators, suggesting a longer duration of subjective nowness (Sauer et al, 2012). This result can be explained by evidence suggesting that mindfulness meditation trains attentional skills and produces increased attentional resources (Lutz, Slagter, Dunne, & Davidson, 2008).…”

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The effect of mindfulness meditation on time perception

Kramer

Weger

Sharma

2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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Research has increasingly focussed on the benefits of meditation in everyday life and performance. Mindfulness in particular improves attention, working memory capacity, and reading comprehension. Given its emphasis on moment-to-moment awareness, we hypothesised that mindfulness meditation would alter time perception. Using a within-subjects design, participants carried out a temporal bisection task, where several probe durations are compared to "short" and "long" standards. Following this, participants either listened to an audiobook or a meditation that focussed on the movement of breath in the body. Finally, participants completed the temporal bisection task for a second time. The control group showed no change after the listening task. However, meditation led to a relative overestimation of durations. Within an internal clock framework, a change in attentional resources can produce longer perceived durations. This meditative effect has wider implications for the use of mindfulness as an everyday practice and a basis for clinical treatment.

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How long is now for mindfulness meditators?

Cited by 60 publications

References 23 publications

Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

Mindfulness meditation and relaxation training increases time sensitivity

The effect of mindfulness meditation on time perception

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