Visual Sensitivity and Mindfulness Meditation
Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1984 Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart 82 citations
After a three-month retreat with 16 hours of daily mindfulness meditation, practitioners showed improved visual sensitivity: they could detect briefer light flashes and distinguish shorter intervals between successive flashes. A control group of retreat staff showed no change. Phenomenological reports suggest mindfulness practice brings normally preattentive visual processes into conscious awareness. These results support Buddhist textual claims about perceptual changes during mindfulness meditation.