{"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"mindfulness; meditation; mind-wandering; textcomprehension; sustained attention"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mp2f9gj","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":"2016-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26280/galley/15916/download/"}]}