Dawa T. Phillips

TL;DR: Cultivating mindfulness is an effective and efficient technique for improving cognitive function, with wide-reaching consequences, and improves both GRE reading-comprehension scores and working memory capacity.

TL;DR: Four studies validating a Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) across college, high school, and middle school samples showed high internal consistency, as well as convergent validity with existing measures of mind-wandering and related constructs.

TL;DR: It is found that a 2-week meditation program significantly enhanced introspective accuracy, quantified by metacognitive judgments of cognition on a trial-by-trial basis, in a memory but not a perception domain, suggesting that, in at least some domains, the human capacity to introspect is plastic and can be enhanced through training.

TL;DR: It is determined that an intervention emphasizing the cultivation of mindfulness increased the frequency of the state that had been associated with a greater propensity for focused attention, especially for those who improved most in dispositional mindfulness.

TL;DR: Initial evidence that mindfulness training in children reduces stress and promotes functional brain changes and that such training can be integrated into the school curriculum for entire classes is provided.