Meditation experience predicts negative reinforcement learning and is associated with attenuated FRN amplitude
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience November 16, 2018 Paul Knytl, Bertram Opitz 9 citations
People who practice focused attention meditation learn more from negative feedback than nonmeditators, and this effect increases with meditation experience. Meditators also show a smaller feedback-related negativity (FRN) brain signal, a pattern linked to higher tonic dopamine levels. The findings suggest that regular meditation may persistently raise tonic dopamine, thereby altering how the brain processes feedback. The study involved a probabilistic selection task to measure feedback-based learning.