Kurt Lushington

2 papers in the library · publishing 2017-2018

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States of focused attention and sequential action: A comparison of single session meditation and computerised attention task influences on top-down control during sequence learning.

Acta Psychologica November 2018 Russell W Chan, Kurt Lushington, Maarten A. Immink

Motor sequence learning is considered the result of the outflow of information following cognitive control processes that are shared by other goal-directed behaviours. Emerging evidence suggests that focused-attention meditation (FAM) establishes states of enhanced cognitive control, that then exert top-down control biases in subsequent unrelated tasks. With respect to sequence learning, a...

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.09.003 Full text Meditation Attention Cognitive control Sequence learning +1

The influence of focused-attention meditation states on the cognitive control of sequence learning.

Consciousness and Cognition October 2017 Russell W Chan, Maarten A. Immink, Kurt Lushington

Cognitive control processes influence how motor sequence information is utilised and represented. Since cognitive control processes are shared amongst goal-oriented tasks, motor sequence learning and performance might be influenced by preceding cognitive tasks such as focused-attention meditation (FAM). Prior to a serial reaction time task (SRTT), participants completed either a single-session...

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.07.004 Full text Meditation Attention Cognitive control Memory +1