Dispositional mindfulness facets predict the efficiency of attentional networks

Mindfulness and Cognitive Functions: Toward a Unifying Neurocognitive Framework

“…The mental functions addressed by these articles include perception (Pagnoni and Guareschi 2017;Srinivasan and Singh 2017), multiple attentional processes (Di Francesco et al 2017;Ben-Soussan et al 2017;Jha et al 2017;Malinowski et al 2017;Srinivasan and Singh 2017;van Vugt and van den Hurk 2017), including attentional control, attentional orienting, alertness, sustained attention, attentional effort, and scope of attention, cognitive control (Malinowski et al 2017), thinking processes (Colzato et al 2017), metacognition (Norman 2017), consciousness (Ben-Soussan et al 2017;Norman 2017;Pagnoni and Guareschi 2017;Srinivasan and Singh 2017), and self (Berkovich-Ohana and Glicksohn 2017). Neurocognitive aging (Malinowski et al 2017) as well as affective processing (Malinowski et al 2017;Berkovich-Ohana and Glicksohn 2017) and transcendence experiences (Berkovich-Ohana and Glicksohn 2017; Pagnoni and Guareschi 2017) are also addressed in the special section.…”

“…The research methods used across the empirical investigations in the contributed articles include behavioral paradigms (Colzato et al 2017;Di Francesco et al 2017;Jha et al 2017;Malinowski et al 2017; Jha et al (2017) integrate behavioral measures (with the SART task) with subjective reports in a study about the effects of mindfulness training on attention and mind wandering. Other contributed articles emphasize theoretical reflection informed by phenomenology, neurosciences, and contemplative tradition (Norman 2017;Pagnoni and Guareschi 2017).…”

“…Other contributed articles emphasize theoretical reflection informed by phenomenology, neurosciences, and contemplative tradition (Norman 2017;Pagnoni and Guareschi 2017). The empirical investigations involve mindfulness or meditation training on the timescale of several weeks (e.g., Ben-Soussan et al 2017;Jha et al 2017;Malinowski et al 2017) as well as long-term meditators (e.g., Srinivasan and Singh 2017) and assessment of dispositional mindfulness in non-meditators (Di Francesco et al 2017). Colzato et al (2017) contrast the effects of focused attention meditation and open monitoring meditation on thinking processes.…”

“…For example, the results of Jha et al (2017) suggest that mindfulness training may help alleviate some of the harmful effects of stress and promote cognitive resilience. The study of Di Francesco et al (2017) has implications for the assessment of mindfulness and its effects in terms of both self-report dispositional measures and behavioral tests. The work of Malinowski et al shows the potential of mindfulness training in an elderly people with focus on important cognitive control and emotion regulation functions, and their electrophysiological correlates which can be associated with neuroplasticity.…”

“…These processes are in particular measured by the Attentional Network Test (ANT) (Fan et al 2002) and its modifications (see Di Francesco et al 2017), with some differential findings based on duration and type of meditation practice (e.g., Baijal et al 2011;Jha et al 2007;Tang et al 2007;van den Hurk et al 2009). Sustained attention tasks have also been used for cognitive performance assessment associated to mindfulness training (Jha et al 2017;Lutz et al 2009).…”