ReviewThe American psychologist2015
Investigating the phenomenological matrix of mindfulness-related practices from a neurocognitive perspective.
Review in The American psychologist, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 223 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Evaluating the Effects of Online Mindfulness Therapy on Pandemic Fatigue and Resilience Among Nurses in COVID-19 Quarantine Wards
Internet-based Mind-Body Training (iMBT) for Brain Health
Who cites it
223 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Investigator Meditation Practice Predicts Efficacy of Child/Adolescent Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Meta-Analysis.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review on the effectiveness of unstandardized mindfulness interventions in improving dietary and physical activity outcomes in healthy adults.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.Health psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- The mindful leader: a review of leadership qualities derived from mindfulness meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of fMRI studies on arousing or wake-promoting effects in Buddhist meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Mindfulness in the focus of the neurosciences - The contribution of neuroimaging to the understanding of mindfulness.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring the Effects of Meditation Techniques Used by Mindfulness-Based Programs on the Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Academic Skills of Children: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Personalized prediction of response to three meditation practices: A randomized controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- Effects of mindful breathing meditation on stereotype expression in two randomized controlled double-blinded trials.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Meditation dosage predicts self- and teacher-perceived responsiveness to an 18-month randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.Journal of counseling psychology · 2024Trial
- Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Trial
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- Impact of warm mindfulness on emotion regulation: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Trial
- Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Trial
- A single session of mindfulness meditation may acutely enhance cognitive performance regardless of meditation experience.PloS one · 2023Trial
- Mindfulness training reduces loneliness and increases social contact in a randomized controlled trial.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Trial
- Impact of short- and long-term mindfulness meditation training on amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli.NeuroImage · 2018Trial
- LPP slopes index attention dynamics: Evidence from mindfulness inductions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
There has been a great increase in literature concerned with the effects of a variety of mental training regimes that generally fall within what might be called contemplative practices, and a majority of these studies have focused on mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation practices can be conceptualized as a set of attention-based, regulatory, and self-inquiry training regimes cultivated for various ends, including wellbeing and psychological health. This article examines the construct of mindfulness in psychological research and reviews recent, nonclinical work in this area. Instead of proposing a single definition of mindfulness, we interpret it as a continuum of practices involving states and processes that can be mapped into a multidimensional phenomenological matrix which itself can be expressed in a neurocognitive framework. This phenomenological matrix of mindfulness is presented as a heuristic to guide formulation of next-generation research hypotheses from both cognitive/behavioral and neuroscientific perspectives. In relation to this framework, we review selected findings on mindfulness cultivated through practices in traditional and research settings, and we conclude by identifying significant gaps in the literature and outline new directions for research.
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