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Meditation has been touted to have many benefits and many of these are supported by neuroscience and cognitive sciences in general. And the latest research gives some support to helping with becoming less error prone.
Let’s also be a bit cautious in interpretations. Meditation research (or rather the popular press that picks this up and meditation practitioners) has been notorious for over reporting positive effects and under reporting negative effects of mediation.
So what did they find?
Lin et al. at Washington State University recruited around 200 volunteers for this study. This an impressive size for this type of study. They aimed to research how open monitoring meditation affected error recognition.
Open monitoring meditation is meditation that focuses on one’s own feelings and mind, rather than trying to focus on a single thing such as a candle or one’s breath, as some forms of meditation do. This encourages participants to become an observer of their feelings and emotions as their…
