Effortless Attention as a Biomarker for Experienced Mindfulness Practitioners
- Tanaka Guaraci Ken
- Maslahati Tolou
- Gongora Mariana
- Bittencourt Juliana
- Lopez Luiz Carlos Serramo
- Demarzo Marcelo Marcos Piva
- Budde Henning
- Teixeira Silmar
- Basile Luis Fernando
- Campayo Javier Garcia
- Cagy Mauricio
- Ribeiro Pedro
- Velasques Bruna
DOIAbstract
The present study aimed at comparing frontal beta power between long-term (LTM) and first-time meditators (FTM), before, during and after a meditation session. We hypothesized that LTM would present lower beta power than FTM due to lower effort of attention and awareness.Twenty one participants were recruited, eleven of whom were long-term meditators. The subjects were asked to rest for 4 minutes before and after open monitoring (OM) meditation (40 minutes).The two-way ANOVA revealed an interaction between the group and moment factors for the Fp1 (p<0.01), F7 (p = 0.01), F3 (p<0.01), Fz (p<0.01), F4 (p<0.01), F8 (p<0.01) electrodes.We found low power frontal beta activity for LTM during the task and this may be associated with the fact that...
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