Gérard Dreyfus

Probing the posture with machine learning provides physiological evidence supporting the enhanced body awareness hypothesis in trait mindfulness

Frontiers in Physiology September 2, 2022 Charles Verdonk, Marion Trousselard, Takfarinas Medani et al.

Enhanced body awareness has been suggested as one of the cognitive mechanisms that characterize mindfulness. Yet neuroscience literature still lacks strong empirical evidence to support this claim. Body awareness contributes to postural control during quiet standing; in particular, it may be argued that body awareness is more strongly engaged when standing quietly with eyes closed, because only...