Meditation affects word recognition of meditation novices.
Journal
Psychological research
ISSN: 1430-2772
Titre abrégé: Psychol Res
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0435062
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
received:
20
07
2020
accepted:
13
04
2021
pubmed:
10
5
2021
medline:
26
3
2022
entrez:
9
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This work represents one of the first attempts to examine the effects of meditation on the processing of written single words. In the present longitudinal study, participants conducted a lexical decision task and rated the affective valence of nouns before and after a 7-week class in mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, or a control intervention. Both meditation groups rated the emotional valence of nouns more neutral after the interventions, suggesting a general down-regulation of emotions. In the loving-kindness group, positive words were rated more positively after the intervention, suggesting a specific intensification of positive feelings. After both meditation interventions, response times in the lexical decision task accelerated significantly, with the largest facilitation occurring in the loving-kindness group. We assume that meditation might have led to increased attention, better visual discrimination, a broadened attentional focus, and reduced mind-wandering, which in turn enabled accelerated word recognition. These results extend findings from a previous study with expert Zen meditators, in which we found that one session of advanced meditation can affect word recognition in a very similar way.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33966104
doi: 10.1007/s00426-021-01522-5
pii: 10.1007/s00426-021-01522-5
pmc: PMC8942899
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
723-736Subventions
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : (HO 5139/2-2)
Organisme : Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
ID : doctoral studies grant
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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