Reduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena
Scientific Reports May 2, 2024 Sucharit Katyal, Oussama Abdoun, Hugues Mounier et al. 4 citations
Long-term meditators in an open monitoring (OM) state show reduced automatic mental processing of objects that imply actions, compared to their baseline state. Novice meditators did not show this reduction. The study used EEG to measure µ-rhythm desynchronization, which correlated with how long objects were perceived. The findings suggest OM meditation can help decouple automatic cognitive processing of action-related mental content.