Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences October 11, 2007 Yi-Yuan Tang, Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang et al. 1,585 citations
Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind training method shows...