Sanger, Kevanne Louise and Dorjee, Dusana orcid.org/0000-0003-1887-303X (2016) Mindfulness training with adolescents enhances metacognition and the inhibition of irrelevant stimuli:Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. pp. 1-11. ISSN 2211-9493
Abstract
With the increased interest in school-based mindfulness interventions, there have been repeated calls to investigate neurodevelopmental markers of change. This non-randomised study of 16-18 year olds with wait-list control group examined possible enhancements to brain indexes of attention processing after school-based mindfulness training using event-related potentials (ERPs) (N=47 for self-report; N=40 for ERPs). Results showed significantly more negative N2 amplitudes after training, in response to irrelevant frequent stimuli and colour-deviant non-target oddball stimuli in a visual oddball paradigm. Improvements in negative thought controllability were associated with more negative N2 amplitudes post-training across groups, and mindfulness training was associated with reductions in students' hypercritical self-beliefs. There were no group differences on task performance, but regression analysis indicated that programme satisfaction explained 16% of the variance in improved target accuracy. Together these results suggest that a school-based mindfulness curriculum can enhance older adolescents' task-relevant inhibitory control of attention and perceived mental competency.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors. |
Keywords: | Adolescence,Attention,ERP,Metacognition,Mind wandering,Mindfulness |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2018 09:10 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 23:59 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tine.2016.01.001 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.tine.2016.01.001 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135619 |
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