Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2017
Respond, don't react: The influence of mindfulness training on performance monitoring in older adults.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychotherapeutic interventions in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's dementia: a systematic review.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2022Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in nonclinical settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Positive Psychology Interventions in Early-Stage Cognitive Decline Related to Dementia: A Systematic Review of Cognitive and Brain Functioning Outcomes of Mindfulness Interventions.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Cognitive, psychological, and physiological effects of a web-based mindfulness intervention in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: an open study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Anxiety disrupts performance monitoring: integrating behavioral, event-related potential, EEG microstate, and sLORETA evidence.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Three potential neurovascular pathways driving the benefits of mindfulness meditation for older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- A Mini-Review of Work Stress and Mindfulness: A Neuropsychological Point of View.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Medial frontal negativities predict performance improvements during motor sequence but not motor adaptation learning.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- The Association Between Experimentally Induced Stress, Performance Monitoring, and Response Inhibition: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Clarifying the relationship between mindfulness and executive attention: a combined behavioral and neurophysiological study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Electroencephalography-Based Measures to Understand Meditation and Mindfulness: Bibliometric Scoping Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthReview
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Abstract
A sizeable body of literature demonstrates positive effects of mindfulness training on brain, behavior, and psychological processes in both novice and expert practitioners as compared to non-meditators. However, only more recently has research begun to examine the specific mechanisms by which mindfulness exerts these effects. In the current study, we used event-related potentials (error-related negativity (ERN), error positivity (Pe)) to test the hypothesis that performance monitoring is one such mechanism. We conducted a randomized controlled trial in healthy older adults (n = 36), relevant because markers of performance monitoring are known to decline with normal aging. Compared to an active control condition, mindfulness participants showed an increase in the ERN, without an increase in the Pe. Participants in both groups reported a reduction in self-report of anxiety and self-judgment of one's own mental functioning, indicating the subjective impression of benefit from each intervention type. The current results are important insofar as they support the purported self-regulatory functions of mindfulness (i.e., learning to respond, not react), as well as demonstrating that such positive effects can be obtained in an older adult sample, both of which have important implications for intervention.
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