Closed-loop digital meditation improves sustained attention in young adults
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Attention is a fundamental cognitive process that is critical for essentially all aspects of higher-order cognition and real-world activities. Younger generations have deeply embraced information technology and multitasking in their personal lives, school and the workplace, creating myriad challenges to their attention. While improving sustained attention in healthy young adults would be beneficial, enhancing this ability has proven notoriously difficult in this age group. Here we show that 6 weeks of engagement with a meditation-inspired, closed-loop software program (MediTrain) delivered on mobile devices led to gains in both sustained attention and working memory in healthy young adults. These improvements were associated with positive changes in key neural signatures of attentional control (frontal theta inter-trial coherence and parietal P3b latency), as measured by electroencephalography. Our findings suggest the utility of delivering aspects of the ancient practice of focused-attention meditation in a modern, technology-based approach and its benefits on enhancing sustained attention.
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FA can promote positive changes in the key neural signals (frontal theta inter-trial coherence and parietal P3b latency) of attention networks.
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- Authors
- Ziegler, D. A., Simon, A. J., Gallen, C. L., Skinner, S., Janowich, J. R., Volponi, J. J., Rolle, C. E., Mishra, J., Kornfield, J., Anguera, J. A., & Gazzaley, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ziegler, David A.
- Gazzaley, Adam
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Published
- 2019-06-03
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 746-757
- ISSN
- 2397-3374 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7534732
- OpenAlex
- W2947676450
- Cited by
- 97
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 14.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Human Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (R21AG041071, R01AG049424)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Keywords
- sustained attention, working memory, focused attention meditation, mobile health, attentional control, young adults, multitasking
- MeSH terms
- Multitasking Behavior, Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Double-Blind Method, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Event-Related Potentials, P300, Meditation, Young Adult, Mobile Applications, Healthy Volunteers
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