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    "pk": 26280,
    "title": "Mindfulness meditation as attention control training: A dual-blind investigation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Mindfulness meditation is a form of secular meditation thatemphasizes non-judgmental awareness of the presentmoment. Research into mindfulness has greatly expanded inrecent years (Davidson & Kasniak, 2015) and a growingliterature has documented effects of mindfulness training oncognition. However, the specific aspects of mindfulnessmeditation training for novice practitioners that mightinfluence cognition remain unexplored. The present studyused a rigorous, dual-blind design to investigate whether theattention-monitoring component of mindfulness meditationreduces mind-wandering and improves performance duringreading comprehension and sustained attention tasks. Whencompared with relaxation meditation, mindfulness trainingimproved recall of specific details from a text but did notreduce mind-wandering or affect sustained attention. Theresults are discussed with respect to design considerationswhen studying a meditation intervention.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "mindfulness; meditation; mind-wandering; textcomprehension; sustained attention"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alexa",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Romberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Maryland",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Henk",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Haarmann",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Maryland",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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