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Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
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The ability to focus one’s attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for extended periods of time. In the laboratory, sustained-attention failure is manifest as a decline in perceptual sensitivity with increasing time on task, known as the vigilance decrement. We investigated improvements in sustained attention with training (~5 hr/day for 3 months), which consisted of meditation practice that involved sustained selective attention on a chosen stimulus (e.g., the participant’s breath). Participants were randomly assigned either to receive training first ( n = 30) or to serve as waiting-list controls and receive training second ( n = 30). Training produced improvements in visual discrimination that were linked to increases in perceptual sensitivity and improved vigilance during sustained visual attention. Consistent with the resource model of vigilance, these results suggest that perceptual improvements can reduce the resource demand imposed by target discrimination and thus make it easier to sustain voluntary attention.
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“Another important constituent that has emerged in the literature is that mindfulness and other meditations improve internal awareness and that developed capacity has led to increased clarity of mental processes leading to improvements in meta-awareness (Cahn and Polich, 2006; MacLean et al., 2010; Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010; Schmalzl et al., 2015).”
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“Open monitoring is also believed to involve higher-order meta-awareness (MacLean et al., 2010; Schmalzl et al., 2015) enabling an objective witnessing of one’s stream of thoughts and experiences.”
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“Mindfulness practices have been associated with benefits for coping with stress, anxiety, and depression [23,25,26,27], improving compassion and increasing prosocial (e.g., helping or relationship-promoting) behaviors [28,29,30], bolstering attention and working (e.g., short-term) memory [31,32], improving self-regulatory abilities (e.g., self-control) [33], and supporting physical health [34,35,”
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“Engaging in formal mindfulness training reduces depressive symptoms and rumination while improving sustained attention (e.g., Chambers, Lo, & Allen, 2008) and perceptual sensitivity (e.g., MacLean et al., 2010).”
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“empirical evidence also suggests that arousal is generated during specific meditative practices. For instance, the generation of arousal during meditation has been observed in Hindu Tantric practices (e.g., [121, 122]) as well as in several Vajrayana practices (e.g., [27, 28])”
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Metadata
- Authors
- MacLean, K. A., Ferrer, E., Aichele, S. R., Bridwell, D. A., Zanesco, A. P., Jacobs, T. L., King, B. G., Rosenberg, E. L., Sahdra, B. K., Shaver, P. R., Wallace, B. A., Mangun, G. R., & Saron, C. D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Corresponding author
- MacLean, Katherine A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-05-11
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 829-839
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC3132583
- OpenAlex
- W2151443397
- Cited by
- 623
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 97 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 47 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 40 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 18.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Fetzer Institute
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh055714-13)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH055714)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Keywords
- meditation training, sustained attention, vigilance decrement, perceptual discrimination, perceptual sensitivity, visual discrimination, selective attention, attentional fatigue, mindfulness
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Arousal, Attention, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Visual Perception, Meditation, Young Adult
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