Transcendental Meditation and Mirror-Tracing Skill
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1978 L. R. T. Williams
A comparison of 32 experienced Transcendental Meditators and 32 non-meditators found that the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation, such as increased alertness, sustained attention, greater consistency, and reduced anxiety, did not translate into better learning or performance of a new perceptual-motor skill. The practice showed no advantage in this specific task.