Focused attention meditation training modifies neural activity and attention: longitudinal EEG data in non-meditators.

ABSTRACT: Focused attention meditation (FAM) is a basic meditation practice that cultivates attentional control and monitoring skills. Cross-sectional studies have highlighted high cognitive performance and discriminative neural activity in experienced meditators. However, a direct relationship between neural activity changes and improvement of attention caused by meditation training remains to be elucidated. To investigate this, we conducted a longitudinal study, which evaluated the results of electroencephalography (EEG) during three-stimulus oddball task, resting state and FAM before and after 8 weeks of FAM training in non-meditators. The FAM training group (n = 17) showed significantly higher P3 amplitude during the oddball task and shorter reaction time (RT) for target stimuli compared to that

SUBMITTER: Yoshida K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature