ArticleJournal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice2017
Meditation and Metacontrol.
Article in Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Uncertainty, Cognitive Control and Theta-Band Activity: A Relationship That Depends on Metacontrol Requirements.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Metacontrol-related aperiodic neural activity decreases but strategic adjustment thereof increases from childhood to adulthood.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aperiodic neural activity reflects metacontrol in task-switching.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The metacontrol of event segmentation-A neurophysiological and behavioral perspective.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- The Role of Stimulus Uncertainty and Curiosity in Attention Control.Experimental psychology · 2024Article
- Navigating the multiple dimensions of the creativity-mental disorder link: a Convergence Mental Health perspective.Discover mental health · 2023Review
- Alpha ERS-ERD Pattern during Divergent and Convergent Thinking Depends on Individual Differences on Metacontrol.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- The Influence of Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Mindfulness Meditation States on True and False Memory.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2023Article
- Resting-state BOLD signal variability is associated with individual differences in metacontrol.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Instantaneous effects of mindfulness meditation on tennis return performance in elite junior athletes completing an implicitly sequenced serve return task.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Age-Related Differential Effects of School-Based Sitting and Movement Meditation on Creativity and Spatial Cognition: A Pilot Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Brief Mindfulness Breathing Exercises and Working Memory Capacity: Findings from Two Experimental Approaches.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Individual Differences in the Change of Attentional Functions With Brief One-Time Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Just Open Your Mind? A Randomized, Controlled Study on the Effects of Meditation on Creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Intact microstructure of the right corticostriatal pathway predicts creative ability in healthy adults.Brain and behavior · 2020Article
- Dual-Task Performance: Theoretical Analysis and an Event-Coding Account.Journal of cognition · 2020Article
- Rumination impairs the control of stimulus-induced retrieval of irrelevant information, but not attention, control, or response selection in general.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Theory of Event Coding (TEC) V2.0: Representing and controlling perception and action.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
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Abstract
In addition to longer-term engagement in meditation, the past years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of single bouts of meditation on cognition. In this hypothesis and theory article, we adopt the distinction between focused-attention meditation (FAM) and open-monitoring meditation (OMM) and argue that these different types of meditation have different, to some degree, opposite impact on cognitive processes. We discuss evidence suggesting that single bouts of FAM and OMM are sufficient to bias cognitive control styles towards more versus less top-down control, respectively. We conclude that all meditation techniques are not equal and that successful meditation-based intervention requires the theoretically guided selection of the best-suited technique.
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