The influence of Hatha Yoga on stress and attention
| Autor: | Szaszkó, Bence, Ansorge, Ulrich, Maiworm, Mira, Laiber, Sophia, Nater, Urs, Schmid, Rebecca, Tschenett, Hannah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Anxiety Social and Behavioral Sciences Stress Cortisol Alpha-Amylase Hatha Yoga N2pc Psychology Pd Attention EEG Inhibition Health Psychology Neuroscience and Neurobiology Yoga Cognitive Psychology Life Sciences Electroencephalography Task Switching FOS: Psychology Attentional Control Theory Cognitive Science Perception Stress reduction Mindfulness |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/cdx96 |
| Popis: | Mindfulness-based interventions may be able to promote human stress management and reduce anxiety or depression. They also seem to positively influence cognitive performance. We want to find out how Hatha Yoga, a well-established mindfulness intervention and the most common form of yoga, affects emotional and cognitive processes. Building on Attentional Control Theory (Eysenck et al., 2007), that states that anxiety and stress impair the inhibition and shifting functions of attention, we hypothesize that an eight-week yoga intervention improves inhibition, multimodal task switching and switching between different attentional control sets. We additionally hypothesize that these changes are achieved by lowering stress and anxiety levels and restoring the balance between goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. We seek to prove these hypotheses by conducting a randomised controlled trial with an experimental and a waitlisted control group, with the experimental group actively participating in a 60-minute hatha yoga intervention at least three times a week for 8 weeks. We use a combination of questionnaires, electroencephalography (EEG), biological measures and behavioral experiments. |
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