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How long is now for mindfulness meditators? 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Sauer, S.,Lemke, J.,Wittmann, M.,Kohls, N.,Mochty, U.,Walach, H.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2012
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Personality and individual differences
  • 발행사항Vol.52No.6[2012]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0191-8869
  • 소개/요약The experience of the present moment is characterized by an integrative mechanism that fuses successive events into a unitary phenomenological experience with a temporal limit of about 3 s. We hypothesized that proficiency of mindfulness expands the ability to stabilize an ambiguous percept in a bistable image paradigm using the Necker Cube, and that this effect is associated with individual differences in the level of mindfulness. Expanded duration of nowness as indicated by the ability to stabilize a bistable image stimulus for a longer period of time may improve cognitive resources and thus be of practical interest. In a sample of n = 38 meditators and n = 38 non-meditators, meditators showed longer duration of subjective nowness. This effect was associated with individual mindfulness levels. It is concluded that the subjective now can be longer for meditators than for non-meditators, and individual levels of mindfulness may convey this effect.