ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2019
Clarifying the relationship between mindfulness and executive attention: a combined behavioral and neurophysiological study.
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- Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.Health psychology review · 2024Pooled it
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- The impact of a 12-Week yoga intervention on attentional performance in school-aged children: a randomized controlled trial in Western China.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Examining the Impact of Brief Mindfulness Practice on Sustained Attention, Attentional Inhibition and Convergent Thinking.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- The Role of Momentary Dissociation in the Sensory Cortex: A Neurophysiological Review and its Implications for Maladaptive Daydreaming.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Review
- Parsing state mindfulness effects on neurobehavioral markers of cognitive control: A within-subject comparison of focused attention and open monitoring.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Mindfulness and CBT: a conceptual integration bridging ancient wisdom and modern cognitive theories of psychopathology.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Event-related potential patterns of selective attention modulated by perceptual load.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Investigating mindfulness influences on cognitive function: On the promise and potential of converging research strategies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- The impact of mindfulness meditation on social and moral behavior: Does mindfulness enhance other-oriented motivation or decrease monetary reward salience?Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- A Mini-Review of Work Stress and Mindfulness: A Neuropsychological Point of View.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- An electrophysiological investigation on the emotion regulatory mechanisms of brief open monitoring meditation in novice non-meditators.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Towards an Individual Differences Perspective in Mindfulness Training Research: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- On Variation in Mindfulness Training: A Multimodal Study of Brief Open Monitoring Meditation on Error Monitoring.Brain sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Mindfulness is frequently associated with improved attention. However, the nature of the relationship between mindfulness and executive attention, a core function of the attentional system, is surprisingly unclear. Studies employing behavioral measures of executive attention have been equivocal. Although neuroscientific studies have yielded more consistent findings, reporting functional and structural changes in executive attention brain regions, the observed changes in brain activity have not been linked to behavioral performance. The current study aimed to fill these gaps in the literature by examining the extent to which trait mindfulness related to behavioral and neurophysiological (indexed by the stimulus-locked P3) measures of executive attention. Results revealed that higher trait mindfulness was related to less flanker interference on accuracy and reaction time, consistent with enhanced executive attention. Critically, mediational analyses showed that the P3 accounted for the relationship between trait mindfulness and executive attention performance, elucidating a neural mechanism through which mindfulness enhances executive attention.
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