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Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Biedermann, B.,de Lissa, P.,Mahajan, Y.,Polito, V.,Badcock, N.,Connors, M. H.,Quinto, L.,Larsen, L.,McArthur, G.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
  • 출판년도2016
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
  • 발행사항Vol.109No.-[2016]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약The findings of a study by Cahn and Polich (2009) suggests that there is an effect of a meditative state on three event-related potential (ERP) brain markers of “low-level” auditory attention (i.e., acoustic representations in sensory memory) in expert meditators: the N1, the P2, and the P3a. The current study built on these findings by examining trait and state effects of meditation on the passive auditory mismatch negativity (MMN), N1, and P2 ERPs. We found that the MMN was significantly larger in meditators than non-meditators regardless of whether they were meditating or not (a trait effect), and that N1 amplitude was significantly attenuated during meditation in non-meditators but not expert meditators (an interaction between trait and state). These outcomes suggest that low-level attention is superior in long-term meditators in general. In contrast, low-level attention is reduced in non-meditators when they are asked to meditate for the first time, possibly due to auditory fatigue or cognitive overload.