Regular, brief mindfulness meditation practice improves electrophysiological markers of attentional control
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2012 Adam Moore, Thomas Gruber, Jennifer Derose et al. 323 citations
Mindfulness-based meditation practices involve various attentional skills, including the ability to sustain and focus ones attention. During a simple mindful breathing practice, sustained attention is required to maintain focus on the breath while cognitive control is required to detect mind wandering. We thus hypothesized that regular, brief mindfulness training would result in improvements in...