The effort of meditation: Cardiac pre-ejection period during first session of focused-attention and open-monitoring meditation

Maarten Immink; Marije Stolte; Dan T. Scheepers; E. Sjak-Shie; Henk van Steenbergen; Lorenza Colzato; Bernhard Hommel

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.07.236

The effort of meditation: Cardiac pre-ejection period during first session of focused-attention and open-monitoring meditation

Maarten Immink, Marije Stolte, Dan T. Scheepers, E. Sjak-Shie, Henk van Steenbergen, Lorenza Colzato, Bernhard Hommel

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Abstract

Focused-attention (FA) and open-monitoring (OM) meditation techniques differ with respect to top-down control of attention. In FA states, where attention is focused on target stimuli, increased top-down control narrows attention aperture. In contrast, OM states associated with monitoring awareness weaken top-down control to broaden attention. Despite support for this perspective, cognitive effort involved in FA and OM is not well understood and previous work has only assessed self-reported meditation effort.

Original language	English
Article number	36
Pages (from-to)	s83-s83
Number of pages	1
Journal	International Journal of Psychophysiology
Volume	131
Issue number	Supplement
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.07.236
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th World Congress of Psychophysiology: International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) - Lucca, Italy Duration: 4 Sept 2018 → 8 Sept 2018 https://iopworld.wildapricot.org/IOP2018

Keywords

mindfulness meditation
cognitive control
cardiac activity
psychophysiology
impedance cardiography

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The effort of meditation: Cardiac pre-ejection period during first session of focused-attention and open-monitoring meditation

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