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From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

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Laukkonen, Ruben E., Slagter, Heleen A.·2021·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.021

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How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from simple axioms. First, the brain makes predictions based on past experience, both phylogenetic and ontogenetic. Second, deconstructive meditation brings one closer to the here and now by disengaging anticipatory processes. We propose that practicing meditation therefore gradually reduces counterfactual temporally deep cognition, until all conceptual processing falls away, unveiling a state of pure awareness. Our account also places three main styles of meditation (focused attention, open monitoring, and non-dual) on a single continuum, where each technique relinquishes increasingly engrained habits of prediction, including the predicted self. This deconstruction can also permit certain insights by making the above processes available to introspection. Our framework is consistent with the state of empirical and (neuro)phenomenological evidence and illuminates the top-down plasticity of the predictive mind. Experimental rigor, neurophenomenology, and no-report paradigms are needed to further understanding of how meditation affects predictive processing and the self.

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Authors
Laukkonen, R. E., & Slagter, H. A.
Affiliations
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
  • Laukkonen, Ruben E.
  • Slagter, Heleen A.
ORCID
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-09
Volume
128
Pages
199-217
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.021
OpenAlex
W3160885204
Cited by
187
References
189
Citations by year
2026: 31 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 55 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 8
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3.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
European Research Council (679399)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
meditation, predictive processing, predictive mind, anticipatory processing, self, focused attention, pure awareness, self-reflection, neurophenomenology, no-report paradigm
MeSH terms
Attention, Brain, Cognition, Humans, Phylogeny, Meditation

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