Prior brief meditation reduces distractor inhibition during cognitive interference.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mindfulness meditation, comprising focused attention and open monitoring meditations, has been shown to enhance performance on cognitive interference tasks. While this enhancement has been considered not to result from distractor inhibition, no empirical evidence has been provided through behavioral data. In this study, we investigated whether 30-min interventions of focused attention and open monitoring meditations could reduce distractor inhibition in 72 meditation-naïve participants divided into focused attention meditation, open monitoring meditation, and control groups.

Methods

We employed a task set that combined a cognitive interference task with subsequent preference judgment and surprise recognition tasks, utilizing the mere exposure effect paradigm, alon

SUBMITTER: Fujino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473444 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature