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| Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation | |
| Tang, Yi-Yuan; Ma, Yinghua; Wang, Junhong; Fan, Yaxin; Feng, Shigang; Lu, Qilin; Yu, Qingbao; Sui, Danni; Rothbart, Mary K.; Fan, Ming; Posner, Michael I. | |
| Abstract | Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training. The training method comes from traditional Chinese medicine and incorporates aspects of other meditation and mindfulness training. Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity. These results provide a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or other interventions. |
| Keyword | anterior cingulate gyrus attention training control mental training |
| 2007-10-23 | |
| Language | 英语 |
| Source Publication | PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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| ISSN | 0027-8424 |
| Volume | 104Issue:43Pages:17152-17156 |
| Subtype | Article |
| Indexed By | SCI ; SSCI |
| WOS ID | WOS:000250487600076 |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/14089 |
| Collection | 中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010) |
| Affiliation | 1.Dalian Univ Technol, Inst Neuroinformat, Dalian 116023, Peoples R China 2.Dalian Univ Technol, Lab Body & Mind, Dalian 116023, Peoples R China 3.Univ Oregon, Dept Psychol, Eugene, OR 97403 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 5.Grad Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Social & Org Behav, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China 6.Inst Basic Med Sci, Beijing 100850, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tang, Yi-Yuan,Ma, Yinghua,Wang, Junhong,et al. Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2007,104(43):17152-17156. |
| APA | Tang, Yi-Yuan.,Ma, Yinghua.,Wang, Junhong.,Fan, Yaxin.,Feng, Shigang.,...&Posner, Michael I..(2007).Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,104(43),17152-17156. |
| MLA | Tang, Yi-Yuan,et al."Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 104.43(2007):17152-17156. |
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