One-Session Mindfulness Meditation: A Randomized Controlled Study of Effects on Cognition and Mood

Johnson, Susan K.; Gur, Ravid Moses; David, Zhanna; Currier, Elise

doi:10.1007/s12671-013-0234-6

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“…Additionally, it was not reported what amount of mindfulness meditation practice occurred outside of the in-class meditation time. 6 It should be noted that the digit span backwards test used to assess working memory in this study was found to load on a short-term memory factor instead of a working memory capacity factor in Engle et al (1999). shorter duration studies have reported no benefit to working memory capacity following one 25 min meditation session (Johnson et al 2015) or one or six 15 min sessions (Banks et al 2015). One exception to the trend of longer duration practice-more robust benefits is Morrison et al (2014), who did not observe working memory capacity improvement following 7 h of mindfulness training over 7 weeks.…”

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“…It is currently an open empirical question as to what specific benefits-if any-are observed after a specific duration of a specific style of mindfulness meditation training using a well-controlled study design (Van Dam et al 2017). Studies with only one session of mindfulness training have shown no cognitive benefits (Banks et al 2015;Johnson et al 2015) whereas studies with longer duration mindfulness training (e.g., 2 to 8 weeks) have shown more robust cognitive benefits (Jha et al 2010(Jha et al , 2017Mrazek et al 2013). As the current study is the first to test the benefits of focused attention mindfulness meditation training on working memory capacity using recommended rigorous criteria (Shipstead et al 2012a, b), observation of any benefit following mindfulness training in the current study can inform future research.…”

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“…The overview was adapted from Zeidan et al (2010), as provided in Johnson et al (2015). In the overview, participants were told that mindfulness training would train their minds to attend to their present moment experience in a nonjudgmental and non-elaborative way.…”

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“…If mindfulness meditation can induce a state where attention is more focused and centered on the task at hand, or deleterious states (e.g., anxiety, stress, negative affect) are ameliorated, this may produce task results that look like enhanced working memory capacity. In support of the effects on working memory capacity being the result of at least several days of training, Johnson et al (2015), Watier andDubois (2016), andBanks et al (2015) (Time 2) found that one session of mindfulness meditation was not enough practice to improve performance on cognitive tasks relative to control groups. This, and other research showing working memory improvement following at least several days of mindfulness training (Mrazek et al 2013;Zeidan et al 2010), are evidence against state effects and support the notion that longer durations of mindfulness training may be beneficial.…”

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A More Rigorous Examination of the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Working Memory Capacity

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2018

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Working memory is a core cognitive system that is thought to support many forms of complex cognition. Mindfulness meditation has shown promise in improving the functioning of the working memory system, but no study has thoroughly tested its benefits by using a well-controlled study design (i.e., using multiple, valid outcome measures and an active, adaptive control group). The main goal of the current study was to more rigorously examine the effects of mindfulness meditation on working memory capacity. This was done by comparing 2 weeks of focused attention mindfulness meditation training to active, adaptive cognitive training regarding improvement on multiple, valid indicators of working memory capacity that were different from the tasks participants trained on. The results of the present experiment suggest that 2 weeks of focused attention mindfulness meditation training does not improve working memory capacity when controlling for non-specific effects. Future interventions using similar well-controlled study designs can consider using longer duration, more frequent, or alternative styles of mindfulness meditation training to potentially enhance working memory capacity.

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2018

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“…Moreover, participants only received 3 days of training on the meditation technique prior to implementing it as a countermeasure. Meditation benefits may rely on a longer period of preceding training in order to provide benefits when compared to control conditions (Johnson et al 2015). Finally, sleep restriction rather than sleep deprivation mimics sleep loss experienced by many people in day-to-day life and may be more generalizable to the larger population than previous findings (Kaul et al 2010).…”

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Meditation is Effective in Reducing Sleepiness and Improving Sustained Attention Following Acute Sleep Restriction

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Optimal information processing requires appropriate mobilization of mental resources. Sleep loss increases homeostatic sleep pressure, thereby reducing mobilization of mental resources and consequently diminishing attention function. Meditation techniques engage attention processes and mobilize mental resources needed to sustain control of these processes, suggesting a promising role for meditation in counteracting attention deficits associated with sleep loss. Following a 21-day training period with a concentrative form of yoga nidra meditation, participants completed tests of sustained attention and attention interference control, and reported sleepiness and fatigue before and after restricted sleep, and then again after a session of meditation or rest following a crossover design. Sustained attention, sleepiness, and fatigue, but not attention interference control, were impaired following a single night of sleep restriction. Following a session of meditation, sustained attention performance improved and sleepiness decreased. Rest alone did not provide these benefits. These findings provide evidence that meditation can improve attention deficits following sleep loss. The impact of meditation on attention can be explained by reduced mobilization of mental processes since this improvement was associated with reduced sleepiness. A brief period of meditation training appears to be sufficient to elicit meditation benefits for attention following sleep loss. However, the duration of improvement following a bout of meditation remains unknown.

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Mindfulness and false memories: state and dispositional mindfulness does not increase false memories for naturalistic scenes presented in a virtual environment

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Mindfulness attracted increased research interests in the last decade, reporting an overall beneficial effect of this practice on cognitive performances. Nevertheless, recently a possible detrimental impact of mindfulness has been underlined. While the effect of mindfulness on memory remains under-explored, recent studies have observed an increased false-memory susceptibility after mindfulness practice. A possible explanatory mechanism has been suggested, related to the nature of the studied material. For semantically related information, mindfulness would increase false memories; however, the addition of rich perceptual information could prevent this detrimental effect. The present study aimed to verify this hypothesis by testing the impact of state mindfulness induced by a short meditation session, and dispositional mindfulness on the production of false memory for pictorial material presented in a complex virtual environment. We employed a virtual reality version of the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm (DRM), a classical protocol to induce false memories. Contrary to previous studies, we did not observe any effect of mindfulness on false or correct memories (free recall and recognition) after a short mindfulness practice session compared to a control condition. Nonetheless, we found a beneficial effect of mindfulness practice on memory sensitivity. Additionally, we reported a positive and negative effect of dispositional mindfulness on memory outcomes. While the Non-Reactivity facet was associated with overall better memory performances, we observed an association between the Acting with Awareness facet and an increased recollection of lures. We discuss these findings in line with a recent proposal on the link between mindfulness and episodic memory.

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One-Session Mindfulness Meditation: A Randomized Controlled Study of Effects on Cognition and Mood

Cited by 106 publications

References 36 publications

A More Rigorous Examination of the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Working Memory Capacity

A More Rigorous Examination of the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Working Memory Capacity

Meditation is Effective in Reducing Sleepiness and Improving Sustained Attention Following Acute Sleep Restriction

Mindfulness and false memories: state and dispositional mindfulness does not increase false memories for naturalistic scenes presented in a virtual environment

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