ReviewFrontiers in psychology2014
Focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring, and creativity - A review.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04551976 (Habits of Gamers Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 87 papers.
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87 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effects of an online mindfulness-based intervention on brain haemodynamics: a pilot randomized controlled trial using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Trial
- Focused-Attention Meditation Improves Flow, Communication Skills, and Safety Attitudes of Surgeons.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
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- Exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on creativity in an open-label natural setting.Psychopharmacology · 2018Trial
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- Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Neurodynamic profiles in the alpha band distinguish different forms of meditation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Fostering Psychophysical Well-Being via Remote Self-Managed Empowerment Protocols: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Oscillating Mindfully: Using Machine Learning to Characterize Systems-Level Electrophysiological Activity During Focused Attention Meditation.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Effect of Mind Sound Resonance Technique (MSRT) on Cognitive and Psychophysiological Functions in College Students: A Randomised Controlled Study.Annals of neurosciences · 2025Article
- Decoding Depth of Meditation: Electroencephalography Insights From Expert Vipassana Practitioners.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Unveiling Cognitive Interference: fNIRS Insights Into Poststroke Aphasia During Stroop Tasks.Neural plasticity · 2025Article
- Beyond mindfulness: how Buddhist meditation transforms consciousness through distinct psychological pathways.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of focused attention meditation: A scoping systematic review.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Meditation and complexity: a review and synthesis of evidence.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Review
- Music mindfulness acutely modulates autonomic activity and improves psychological state in anxiety and depression.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- The individual and sequential effect of focused attention and open monitoring meditation on mindfulness skills.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Meditation is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research and theories on meditation are becoming ever more specific. We distinguish between what is called focused Attention meditation, open Monitoring meditation, and loving kindness (or compassion) meditation. Research suggests that these meditations have differential, dissociable effects on a wide range of cognitive (control) processes, such as attentional selection, conflict monitoring, divergent, and convergent thinking. Although research on exactly how the various meditations operate on these processes is still missing, different kinds of meditations are associated with different neural structures and different patterns of electroencephalographic activity. In this review we discuss recent findings on meditation and suggest how the different meditations may affect cognitive processes, and we give suggestions for directions of future research.
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