Greater efficiency in attentional processing related to mindfulness meditation
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology September 29, 2009 Paul A. M. van den Hurk, Fabio Giommi, Stan Gielen et al. 282 citations
Expert mindfulness meditators show better orienting and executive attention than age- and gender-matched controls, as measured by the attention network test. The 20 meditators had smaller differences in reaction time and error scores, indicating more efficient attentional processing. Extensive mindfulness meditation appears to reduce the fraction of errors for responses with the same reaction time, suggesting that mental training can increase the efficiency of attentional processing.