Attentional processes and meditation

被引：125

作者：

Hodgins, Holley S. ^{[1
]}

Adair, Kathryn C. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Skidmore Coll, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 USA

[2] VA Boston Healthcare Syst, Womens Hlth Sci Div, Natl Ctr PTSD, Boston, MA USA

来源：

CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION | 2010年 / 19卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Attention; Meditation; Change blindness; Selective attention; Perspective-shifting; Visual concentration; Sustained inattentional blindness; CHANGE BLINDNESS; SEE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.concog.2010.04.002

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Visual attentional processing was examined in adult meditators and non-meditators on behavioral measures of change blindness, concentration, perspective-shifting, selective attention, and sustained inattentional blindness. Results showed that meditators (1) noticed more changes in flickering scenes and noticed them more quickly, (2) counted more accurately in a challenging concentration task, (3) identified a greater number of alternative perspectives in multiple perspectives images, and (4) showed less interference from invalid cues in a visual selective attention task, but (5) did not differ on a measure of sustained inattentional blindness. Together, results show that regular meditation is associated with more accurate, efficient, and flexible visual attentional processing across diverse tasks that have high face validity outside of the laboratory. Furthermore, effects were assessed in a context separate from actual meditation practice, suggesting that meditators' better visual attention is not just immediate, but extends to contexts separate from meditation practice. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：872 / 878

页数：7

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