Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training.

By F. Zeidan, Susan K. Johnson, B. Diamond, Zhanna David, P. Goolkasian. Consciousness and Cognition, 2010

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

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Mindfulness at Work: A New Approach to Improving Individual and Organizational Performance (2015, background): “Zeidan et al. (2010) similarly found that even brief mindfulness training improved participants’ visual-spatial processing and their performance on cognitive tasks necessitating sustained attention.”
Effects of Brief Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes: a Systematic Review (2019, methodology): “…et al. n.d.; Scherpiet et al. 2015; Szasz et al. 2016, 2012; Tincher et al. 2016; Troy et al. 2018; Wilson et al. 2014; Wolgast et al. 2011; Zeidan et al. 2011) and the remaining (n = 10) used a mix of modes (e.g., verbal and video) (Atkinson and Wade 2012; Bowen and Marlatt 2009; Díaz et…”
Examining workplace mindfulness and its relations to job performance and turnover intention (2014, background): “Such findings resonate with research indicating that mindfulness enhances cognitive flexibility (Moore and Malinowski, 2009) and promotes executive functioning (Zeidan et al., 2010) – qualities instrumental to performance across a range of tasks.”
Contemplative Pedagogy: A Quiet Revolution in Higher Education (2013, background): “2007), cognition (Zeidan 2010), and cognitive fl exibility (Moore 2009).”
Meditation in the Higher-Education Classroom: Meditation Training Improves Student Knowledge Retention during Lectures (2013, background): “…that meditation benefits a wide variety of cognitive processes in both the short- and long-term, educators worldwide have begun to utilize meditation as a learning tool for students across a wide variety of age and education levels (Kirk et al. 2011; So and Orme-Johnson 2001; Zeidan et al. 2010).”
Contemplation in the Classroom: a New Direction for Improving Childhood Education (2015, background): “2009), and shortterm mindfulness-meditation training has been found to improve performance on a variety of executive function measures in adults (Chambers et al. 2008; Heeren et al. 2009; Tang et al. 2007; Zeidan et al. 2010; Zylowska et al. 2008).”
Effects of a yoga-based intervention for young adults on quality of life and perceived stress: The potential mediating roles of mindfulness and self-compassion (2012, positive): “, 2010), as well positive associations with cognition, attention, working memory, and executive functioning (Jha et al., 2007; Zeidan et al., 2010), one might hypothesize that yoga-based interventions could affect these domains as well.”
Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, positive): “This sham mindfulness procedure has been effective in controlling for positive treatment expectancies in studies but does not provide the same pain-relief beneﬁts as actual mindfulness meditation training (Zeidan et al. 2010b, 2015).”