Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering

By Michael D. Mrazek, Michael S. Franklin, Dawa T. Phillips, Benjamin Baird, Jonathan W. Schooler. Psychology Science, 2013

1,006 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Kirk Warren Brown
2. Ruth A. Baer
3. Amishi P. Jha
4. J. Bono
5. Theresa M. Glomb
6. M. Duffy
7. Sara W. Lazar
8. Clifford D. Saron

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Jonathan W. Schooler
2. J. Smallwood
3. Amishi P. Jha
4. Michael D. Mrazek
5. Benjamin W. Mooneyham
6. Benjamin Baird
7. Michael S. Franklin
8. Antoine Lutz

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Kirk Warren Brown
2. Jonathan W. Schooler
3. Ruth A. Baer
4. J. Smallwood
5. Amishi P. Jha
6. J. Bono
7. Theresa M. Glomb
8. M. Duffy

Citations in the corpus

• Investigating the Phenomenological Matrix of Mindfulness-related Practices from a Neurocognitive Perspective (2015, background): “, & Gross, J. J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion.”
• Practice Is Protective: Mindfulness Training Promotes Cognitive Resilience in High-Stress Cohorts (2017, background): “…(e.g., Allen et al. 2012; Jensen et al. 2012; Jha et al. 2007; MacLean et al. 2010; Zanesco et al. 2013) and working memory (Jensen et al. 2012; Mrazek et al. 2013; van Vugt and Jha 2011) and reduces attentional lapses associated with mind wandering (Morrison et al. 2014), as well as…”
• The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering (2014, background): “In a randomized controlled investigation with undergraduate students, we examined whether a 2-week mindfulness training course would be more effective than a comparably demanding nutrition program in decreasing mind-wandering and improving cognitive performance (Mrazek et al., 2013).”
• The wandering brain: Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes (2015, neutral): “619”
• Contemplating Mindfulness at Work (2016, background): “Dispositional mindfulness (Mrazek, Smallwood, & Schooler, 2012) and mindfulness training ranging from a few (Mrazek et al., 2013) to thousands of hours (Brewer et al., 2011) have been associated with reduced mind wandering.”
• Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression (2017, neutral): “59 It is as yet unclear whether these abbreviated mindfulness interventions can effectively reduce clinical levels of anxiety or depression, though the potential for beneficial effects in a fraction the time warrants further study.”
• Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, neutral): “Brief mindfulness meditation interventions have also been developed, ranging from 2–3-week programs (Lim et al. 2015, Mrazek et al. 2013) to lab-based 3–4-day mindfulness interventions (Creswell et al. 2014, Zeidan et al. 2011).”