Brief body-scan meditation practice improves somatosensory perceptual decision making.
Consciousness and Cognition March 1, 2013 Laura Mirams, Ellen Poliakoff, Richard J Brown et al.
We have previously found that attention to internal somatic sensations (interoceptive attention) during a heart beat perception task increases the misperception of external touch on a somatic signal detection task (SSDT), during which healthy participants erroneously report feeling near-threshold vibrations presented to their fingertip in the absence of a stimulus. However, it has been...