ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Measuring cognitive outcomes in mindfulness-based intervention research: a reflection on confounding factors and methodological limitations.
Review in Current opinion in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03571386 (Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs)
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.Health psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Keeping the promise: a critique of the current state of microdosing research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults: results from the HealthyAgers randomized controlled trial.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Trial
- Change starts with the body: Interoceptive appreciation mediates the effect of mindfulness training on behavior change - an effect moderated by depression severity.Psychiatry research · 2024Trial
- Formal mindfulness practice predicts reductions in PTSD symptom severity following a mindfulness-based intervention for women with co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorder.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Trial
- Quantifying variability in attentional shifts during target switching.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Mindfulness, cognition, and long-term meditators: Toward a science of advanced meditation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Integrating mindfulness into the extended process model of emotion regulation: The dual-mode model of mindful emotion regulation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Review
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- Investigating mindfulness influences on cognitive function: On the promise and potential of converging research strategies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- Learning Compassion and Meditation: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Experience of Novice Meditators.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Aversive Pavlovian inhibition in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its restoration by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- How does cognitive function measured by the reaction time and critical flicker fusion frequency correlate with the academic performance of students?BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder: Rationale and protocol for a randomized controlled trial in older adults.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Mindfulness Training for Improving Attention Regulation in University Students: Is It Effective? and Do Yoga and Homework Matter?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- An Analysis of Psychological Distress Profiles and their Correlates in Interdisciplinary Health-care Professional Students.Global advances in health and medicine · 2019Article
- Sleep, Cognition, and Yoga.International journal of yogaReview
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
One potential pathway by which mindfulness-based meditation improves health outcomes is through changes in cognitive functioning. Here, we summarize and comment upon three systematic reviews conducted over the last seven years that have had the goal of identifying the impact of mindfulness on cognitive outcomes. In our analysis, we identified a number of methodological limitations and potential confounding factors that interfere with and limit our ability to interpret the results. In order to gain a granular view of the relationship between mindfulness training and cognition, we report on the following: 1) What do we know? How does mindfulness affect cognition? 2) variable criteria that define an MBI; 2) limitations of assays used to measure cognition; and 3) methodological quality of an MBI trial and reporting of findings. Finally, we offer constructive means for interpretation and recommendations for moving the field of mindfulness research forward regarding effects on cognition.
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