Closed-loop Digital Meditation Improves Sustained Attention in Young Adults
Nature Human Behaviour June 3, 2019 David A Ziegler, Alexander J. Simon, C. Gallen et al.
Six weeks of using a meditation-inspired, closed-loop mobile app called MediTrain improved sustained attention and working memory in healthy young adults. These cognitive gains were accompanied by positive changes in neural signatures of attentional control, specifically frontal theta inter-trial coherence and parietal P3b latency, as measured by electroencephalography. The findings suggest that delivering aspects of focused-attention meditation through a modern technology-based approach can enhance attention in a population where such improvement has proven difficult.