Yunfei Guo

Mindfulness meditation can improve time-based prospective memory performance in restricted monitoring situation.

Consciousness and Cognition January 1, 2026 Mingyuan Wang, Yunfei Guo

Mindfulness meditation improves time-based prospective memory (TBPM)—remembering to do something at a specific future time—by enhancing attentional resources, but this benefit depends on how much people can monitor the passage of time. In an experiment with 95 undergraduate volunteers, participants who practiced mindfulness meditation showed better TBPM accuracy than a control group, but only when time-monitoring was restricted. When sufficient monitoring was possible, the advantage disappeared. The findings suggest that mindfulness meditation boosts TBPM specifically by improving attention under conditions where time cues are limited.