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Attentional processes and meditation

Hodgins, Holley S., Adair, Kathryn C.·2010·Consciousness and Cognition

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Visual attentional processing was examined in adult meditators and non-meditators on behavioral measures of change blindness, concentration, perspective-shifting, selective attention, and sustained inattentional blindness. Results showed that meditators (1) noticed more changes in flickering scenes and noticed them more quickly, (2) counted more accurately in a challenging concentration task, (3) identified a greater number of alternative perspectives in multiple perspectives images, and (4) showed less interference from invalid cues in a visual selective attention task, but (5) did not differ on a measure of sustained inattentional blindness. Together, results show that regular meditation is associated with more accurate, efficient, and flexible visual attentional processing across diverse tasks that have high face validity outside of the laboratory. Furthermore, effects were assessed in a context separate from actual meditation practice, suggesting that meditators' better visual attention is not just immediate, but extends to contexts separate from meditation practice.

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  • Regular meditation practice is associated with enhanced cognitive flexibility and attentional functioning.

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Authors
Hodgins, H. S., & Adair, K. C.
Affiliations
  • Skidmore College (US)
  • VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
Corresponding author
Hodgins, Holley S.
Venue
Consciousness and Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-12
Volume
19
Issue
4
Pages
872-878
ISSN
1053-8100 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2096530169
Cited by
233
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Consciousness and Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
meditation, visual attention, change blindness, inattentional blindness, selective attention, perspective shift, concentration, sustained attention, attentional flexibility
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Attention, Awareness, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Flicker Fusion, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychomotor Performance, Meditation, Young Adult

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