Probing the posture with machine learning provides physiological evidence supporting the enhanced body awareness hypothesis in trait mindfulness.

ABSTRACT: Enhanced body awareness has been suggested as one of the cognitive mechanisms that characterize mindfulness. Yet neuroscience literature still lacks strong empirical evidence to support this claim. Body awareness contributes to postural control during quiet standing; in particular, it may be argued that body awareness is more strongly engaged when standing quietly with eyes closed, because only body cues are available, than with eyes open. Under these theoretical assumptions, we recorded the postural signals of 156 healthy participants during quiet standing in Eyes closed (EC) and Eyes open (EO) conditions. In addition, each participant completed the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, and his/her mindfulness score was computed. Following a well-established machine learning methodology, we des

SUBMITTER: Verdonk C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9480617 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature