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Bernice Wright

2 papers in the library · publishing 2016-2017

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The mindful eye: Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in meditators and non-meditators.

Consciousness and Cognition February 2017 Veena Kumari, Elena Antonova, Bernice Wright et al.

This study examined the effects of cultivated (i.e. developed through training) and dispositional (trait) mindfulness on smooth pursuit (SPEM) and antisaccade (AS) tasks known to engage the fronto-parietal network implicated in attentional and motion detection processes, and the fronto-striatal network implicated in cognitive control, respectively. Sixty healthy men (19-59years), of whom 30...

Schizotypy and mindfulness: Magical thinking without suspiciousness characterizes mindfulness meditators.

Schizophrenia Research: Cognition September 2016 Elena Antonova, Kavitha Amaratunga, Bernice Wright et al.

Despite growing evidence for demonstrated efficacy of mindfulness in various disorders, there is a continuous concern about the relationship between mindfulness practice and psychosis. As schizotypy is part of the psychosis spectrum, we examined the relationship between long-term mindfulness practice and schizotypy in two independent studies. Study 1 included 24 experienced mindfulness...