Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism
This study examined how cognitive plasticity acquired from a long (8 weeks) course of mindfulness training can modulate the perceptual processing of temporal order judgment (TOJ) on a sub-second scale. Observers carried out a TOJ on two visual disks, with or without concurrent paired beeps. A tempor...
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| description | This study examined how cognitive plasticity acquired from a long (8 weeks) course of mindfulness training can modulate the perceptual processing of temporal order judgment (TOJ) on a sub-second scale. Observers carried out a TOJ on two visual disks, with or without concurrent paired beeps. A temporal ventriloquism paradigm was used in which the sound beeps either were synchronized with the two disks or bracketed the visual stimuli by leading the first disk by 50 ms and lagging the other by 50 ms. A left-to-right bias in TOJ was found under the visual-only condition after mindfulness training. This bias was positively correlated with “acting with awareness,” a factor in the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, showing that awareness of every moment and enhanced attention focus magnify the left-to-right bias. However, the effect of mindfulness training may be short-lived and was not present when attention was diverted by auditory events in the cross-modal temporal ventriloquism illusion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2fe5e956bd56458291f409f702e209482022-12-21T19:41:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-08-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.01937552811Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal VentriloquismYue Tian0Yue Tian1Xinghua Liu2Xinghua Liu3Lihan Chen4Lihan Chen5School of Psychological and Cognitive Science, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Science, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Science, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaThis study examined how cognitive plasticity acquired from a long (8 weeks) course of mindfulness training can modulate the perceptual processing of temporal order judgment (TOJ) on a sub-second scale. Observers carried out a TOJ on two visual disks, with or without concurrent paired beeps. A temporal ventriloquism paradigm was used in which the sound beeps either were synchronized with the two disks or bracketed the visual stimuli by leading the first disk by 50 ms and lagging the other by 50 ms. A left-to-right bias in TOJ was found under the visual-only condition after mindfulness training. This bias was positively correlated with “acting with awareness,” a factor in the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, showing that awareness of every moment and enhanced attention focus magnify the left-to-right bias. However, the effect of mindfulness training may be short-lived and was not present when attention was diverted by auditory events in the cross-modal temporal ventriloquism illusion.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01937/fullmindfulness meditationtemporal ventriloquismaudiovisualtemporal order judgmentattention |
| spellingShingle | Yue Tian Yue Tian Xinghua Liu Xinghua Liu Lihan Chen Lihan Chen Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism Frontiers in Psychology mindfulness meditation temporal ventriloquism audiovisual temporal order judgment attention |
| title | Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism |
| title_full | Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism |
| title_fullStr | Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism |
| title_short | Mindfulness Meditation Biases Visual Temporal Order Discrimination but Not Under Conditions of Temporal Ventriloquism |
| title_sort | mindfulness meditation biases visual temporal order discrimination but not under conditions of temporal ventriloquism |
| topic | mindfulness meditation temporal ventriloquism audiovisual temporal order judgment attention |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01937/full |
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