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Attentional processes and meditation
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Hodgins, H. S., & Adair, K. C.
- Affiliations
- Skidmore College (US)
- VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hodgins, Holley S.
- ORCID
- Adair, Kathryn C.
- 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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