2016/06/01 by Hanaan Bing‐Canar, Jacquelyne Pizzuto, Rebecca J. Compton · 79 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Active listening #Alpha (finance) #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Audiology #Breathing #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Electroencephalography #Medicine #Mindfulness #Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychometrics #Psychotherapist #Stroop effect #Task (project management)
paper · doi:10.1111/psyp.12678
published in Psychophysiology 53(9), 1366-1376 (Wiley)
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The present study investigated whether engaging in a mindful breathing exercise would affect EEG oscillatory activity associated with self-monitoring processes, based on the notion that mindfulness enhances attentional awareness. Participants were assigned to either an audio exercise in mindful breathing or an audio control condition, and then completed a Stroop task while EEG was recorded. The primary EEG measure of interest was error-related alpha suppression (ERAS), an index of self-monitoring in which alpha power is reduced, suggesting mental engagement, following errors compared to correct responses. Participants in the mindful-breathing condition showed increased alpha power during the listening exercise and enhanced ERAS during the subsequent Stroop task. These results indicate enhanced error-monitoring among those in the mindful-breathing group.