Effects of long-term mindfulness meditation training on attentional capacity in professional male fencer athletes.
Scientific Reports April 15, 2025 Hong Ding, Lei Zhang, Chao Ma et al. 9 citations
Attention is a crucial cognitive ability for sports performance. The current research aimed to investigate whether long-term mindfulness meditation (MM) intervention enhances male athletes' attentional function and alters the activity of brain regions related to attention. In this experiment, we recruited 47 professional male fencer athletes completed two main trials-an MM trial and a control...