Prior brief meditation reduces distractor inhibition during cognitive interference.
Frontiers in Psychology 2024 Masahiro Fujino, Yuuki Ooishi, Yoshiyuki Ueda et al. 3 citations
Mindfulness meditation, comprising focused attention and open monitoring meditations, has been shown to enhance performance on cognitive interference tasks. While this enhancement has been considered not to result from distractor inhibition, no empirical evidence has been provided through behavioral data. In this study, we investigated whether 30-min interventions of focused attention and open...