International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
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Int J Psychophysiol · Jan 2016
Meditation and attention: A controlled study on long-term meditators in behavioral performance and event-related potentials of attentional control.
Meditation practice involves attention regulation, and thus is thought to facilitate attention control mechanisms. Studies on meditation techniques using a behavioral measurement of the Attention Network Test (ANT) have shown enhanced attention control, but neural features remain unknown. ⋯ The P3 amplitude in the parietal area remained constant in the congruent and incongruent target conditions among meditators, indicating a higher parietal P3 amplitude during the incongruent target condition relative to matched controls. The findings that meditators exhibited fewer error responses on the ANT and a lack of parietal P3 modulation irrespective of reaction time are discussed in the context of attentional resource allocation.