WITHDRAWN: An Experimental Study on Quantitative Evaluation of Cognitive Features in Indian College Students with Yoga and Rajyoga Meditation as Intervention

Abstract

Background: The current study reported the stigma of mental health issues among young college students, and analysed the effectiveness of Indian therapeutic interventions, Yoga and Rajyoga meditation, in improving the brain dynamics of Yoga college students. This study is the first of its kind that can provide the wavelet decomposition-based EEG features and the cognitive PEBL task features as neurophysiological markers. Methods: Electroencephalographic signals and scores from PEBL battery tasks were recorded during performing PEBL tasks before and after eight weeks of intervention. Results: The post-intervention meditators group demonstrated a substantial improvement in the average scores and memory span in the cognition battery tasks. Additionally, theta, alpha, and beta band powers were higher for post-meditators in frontal, temporal, and parietal regions during CORSI and SIMON tasks. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the combination of Yoga and Rajyoga meditation practice leads to increase in spatial attention, spatial memory, and working memory.