Impact of Long-Term Shaolin Zen Meditation on Emotional Processing in Aging: A Visual ERP Study.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) June 19, 2023 Huang Gu, Tiantian Liang, Zhaoyang Xin et al.
Long-term Shaolin Zen meditation practice may counteract age-related decline in the automatic processing of emotional stimuli. Event-related potentials were recorded from 16 monks with long-term meditation experience and 20 controls without meditation experience during a facial emotion recognition task. Age-related degenerative changes in early ERP components were absent in the meditators but present in the controls. No group differences were found in the late P3 component, suggesting the protective effect is on early, automatic processing rather than later, controlled processing.