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Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training☆
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It is suggested that 4days of meditation training can enhance the ability to sustain attention; benefits that have previously been reported with long-term meditators.About:
This article is published in Consciousness and Cognition.The article was published on 2010-06-01. It has received 1053 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meditation & Mindfulness.read more
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The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation
TL;DR: Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation exerts beneficial effects on physical and mental health, and cognitive performance, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear.
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Is working memory training effective
TL;DR: There is a need to directly demonstrate that WM capacity increases in response to training, and it is argued that transfer of training to WM must be demonstrated using a wider variety of tasks, thus eliminating the possibility that results can be explained by task specific learning.
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Does mindfulness training improve cognitive abilities? A systematic review of neuropsychological findings
TL;DR: Preliminary evidence suggesting that MMPs could enhance cognitive functions is provided, but available evidence should be considered with caution and further high quality studies investigating more standardized mindfulness meditation programs are needed.
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How does it STAC up? Revisiting the scaffolding theory of aging and cognition.
TL;DR: A revised model of cognitive aging that integrates new evidence about the aging brain that has emerged since STAC was published 5 years ago is provided, and STAC-r goes beyond the previous model by combining a life-span approach with aLife-course approach to understand and predict cognitive status and rate of cognitive change over time.
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Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation
Fadel Zeidan,Katherine T. Martucci,Robert A. Kraft,Nakia S. Gordon,John G. McHaffie,Robert C. Coghill +5 more
TL;DR: Assessment of neural mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation influences pain in healthy human participants indicates that meditation engages multiple brain mechanisms that alter the construction of the subjectively available pain experience from afferent information.
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