Clarifying the relationship between mindfulness and executive attention: a combined behavioral and neurophysiological study
| Autor: | Megan E. Fisher, Yanli Lin, Jason S. Moser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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mindfulness Mindfulness Brain activity and meditation Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Executive Function 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Reaction Time Executive attention Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Core function executive attention Mechanism (biology) congruency effects 05 social sciences Brain P3 General Medicine Neurophysiology Trait Original Article Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 1749-5024 1749-5016 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsy113 |
| Popis: | Mindfulness is frequently associated with improved attention. However, the nature of the relationship between mindfulness and executive attention, a core function of the attentional system, is surprisingly unclear. Studies employing behavioral measures of executive attention have been equivocal. Although neuroscientific studies have yielded more consistent findings, reporting functional and structural changes in executive attention brain regions, the observed changes in brain activity have not been linked to behavioral performance. The current study aimed to fill these gaps in the literature by examining the extent to which trait mindfulness related to behavioral and neurophysiological (indexed by the stimulus-locked P3) measures of executive attention. Results revealed that higher trait mindfulness was related to less flanker interference on accuracy and reaction time, consistent with enhanced executive attention. Critically, mediational analyses showed that the P3 accounted for the relationship between trait mindfulness and executive attention performance, elucidating a neural mechanism through which mindfulness enhances executive attention. |
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