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Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Colzato, L. S.,Sellaro, R.,Samara, I.,Baas, M.,Hommel, B.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2015
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Consciousness and cognition
  • 발행사항Vol.37No.-[2015]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약Meditation is becoming an increasingly popular topic for scientific research and various effects of extensive meditation practice (ranging from weeks to several years) on cognitive processes have been demonstrated. Here we show that extensive practice may not be necessary to achieve those effects. Healthy adult non-meditators underwent a brief single session of either focused attention meditation (FAM), which is assumed to increase top-down control, or open monitoring meditation (OMM), which is assumed to weaken top-down control, before performing an Attentional Blink (AB) task - which assesses the efficiency of allocating attention over time. The size of the AB was considerably smaller after OMM than after FAM, which suggests that engaging in meditation immediately creates a cognitive-control state that has a specific impact on how people allocate their attention over time. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.