Mindfulness meditation associated with alterations in bottom-up processing: psychophysiological evidence for reduced reactivity.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology November 2010 Paul A M Van den Hurk, Barbara H Janssen, Fabio Giommi et al.
Mental training by meditation has been related to changes in high-level cognitive functions that involve top-down processing. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the practice of meditation is also related to alterations in low-level, bottom-up processing. Therefore, intersensory facilitation (IF) effects in a group of mindfulness meditators (MM) were compared to IF effects in an...