Can Mindfulness Meditation Improve Learning Abilities? A Cross-sectional Study

Diplôme Master Can Mindfulness Meditation Improve Learning Abilities? A Cross-sectional Study eng 2022 author Angelillo Marie 856494 director Bavelier Daphné 737548 Section de psychologie (PSICO) director Antico Lia 782404 director Chopin Adrien 796284 <p>Mindfulness, the awareness emerging through paying attention purposefully, nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment by moment, can be cultivated through meditation. Several meta-analyses showed that mindfulness meditation improves cognition and reduces stress. Furthermore, the relationship between positive effects of meditation on cognition might be mediated by stress reduction. We adapted a paradigm originally used in action video game research in a cross-sectional design, comparing regular meditators and non-meditators in a working memory task. We examined learning abilities as initial performance and learning rate in the working memory task. Cardiac activity was recorded during the task as a biomarker of stress. Our results showed a difference in initial performance in the working memory task in favor of regular meditators and no significant difference in learning rate. However, there might be a tendency for greater learning rate in non-meditators. We found no difference in cardiac activity nor correlation with learning abilities.</p> Dewey 150 Maitrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1373 Brain & Learning Lab fd5e1a46-5208-4714-a756-30b29f4c45b4 Master thesis Private ANGELILLO_Marie_MA_aout_2022.pdf 24685497 application/pdf aa763d2a9abc23e290a0348840741d9bd898f1e5a88d5cf03abd9efa1e44ba02 closedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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