Mindfulness meditators show altered distributions of early and late neural activity markers of attention in a response inhibition task.


Journal

PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 12 08 2018
accepted: 27 06 2019
entrez: 7 8 2019
pubmed: 7 8 2019
medline: 3 3 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Attention is vital for optimal behavioural performance in every-day life. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to enhance attention. However, the components of attention altered by meditation and the related neural activities are underexplored. In particular, the contributions of inhibitory processes and sustained attention are not well understood. To address these points, 34 meditators were compared to 28 age and gender matched controls during electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of neural activity during a Go/Nogo response inhibition task. This task generates a P3 event related potential, which is related to response inhibition processes in Nogo trials, and attention processes across both trial types. Compared with controls, meditators were more accurate at responding to Go and Nogo trials. Meditators showed a more frontally distributed P3 to both Go and Nogo trials, suggesting more frontal involvement in sustained attention rather than activity specific to response inhibition. Unexpectedly, meditators also showed increased positivity over the right parietal cortex prior to visual information reaching the occipital cortex (during the pre-C1 window). Both results were positively related to increased accuracy across both groups. The results suggest that meditators show altered engagement of neural regions related to attention, including both higher order processes generated by frontal regions, and sensory anticipation processes generated by poster regions. This activity may reflect an increased capacity to modulate a range of neural processes in order to meet task requirements. This increased capacity may underlie the improved attentional function observed in mindfulness meditators.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31386663
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203096
pii: PONE-D-18-23747
pmc: PMC6684080
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e0203096

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

PBF has received equipment for research from MagVenture A/S, Medtronic Ltd, Cervel Neurotech and Brainsway Ltd and funding for research from Neuronetics and Cervel Neurotech. PBF is on the scientific advisory board for Bionomics Ltd. All other authors have no conflicts to report. PBF is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Practitioner Fellowship (6069070). KEH is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Career Development Fellowship (1082894). NCR is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Fellowship (1072057). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

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Auteurs

Neil W Bailey (NW)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, Epworth Healthcare, The Epworth Clinic, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia.

Gabrielle Freedman (G)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Kavya Raj (K)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Brain and Mental Health Research Hub, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.

Caley M Sullivan (CM)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Nigel C Rogasch (NC)

Brain and Mental Health Research Hub, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.

Sung W Chung (SW)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Kate E Hoy (KE)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Richard Chambers (R)

Campus Community Division, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Craig Hassed (C)

Department of General Practice, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Nicholas T Van Dam (NT)

School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America.

Thomas Koenig (T)

Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Paul B Fitzgerald (PB)

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, Epworth Healthcare, The Epworth Clinic, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia.

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