Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes
Mindfulness has been linked to a range of positive social-emotional and cognitive outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. As one of the few traits or dispositions that are associated with both affective and cognitive benefits, we asked whether mindfulness is associated with affective an...
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| author | Tsai, Nancy Treves, Isaac N. Bauer, Clemens C. C. Scherer, Ethan Caballero, Camila West, Martin R. Gabrieli, John D. E. |
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| author_facet | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Tsai, Nancy Treves, Isaac N. Bauer, Clemens C. C. Scherer, Ethan Caballero, Camila West, Martin R. Gabrieli, John D. E. |
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| description | Mindfulness has been linked to a range of positive social-emotional and cognitive outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. As one of the few traits or dispositions that are associated with both affective and cognitive benefits, we asked whether mindfulness is associated with affective and cognitive outcomes through a shared, unitary process or through two dissociable processes. We examined this in adolescents using behavioral measures and also reanalyzed previously reported neuroimaging findings relating mindfulness training to either affect (negative emotion, stress) or cognition (sustained attention). Using multivariate regression analyses, our findings suggest that the relationships between dispositional mindfulness and affective and cognitive processes are behaviorally dissociable and converge with neuroimaging data indicating that mindfulness modulates affect and cognition through separate neural pathways. These findings support the benefits of trait mindfulness on both affective and cognitive processes, and reveal that those benefits are at least partly dissociable in the mind and brain. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1534582024-07-12T20:01:21Z Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes Tsai, Nancy Treves, Isaac N. Bauer, Clemens C. C. Scherer, Ethan Caballero, Camila West, Martin R. Gabrieli, John D. E. McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Mindfulness has been linked to a range of positive social-emotional and cognitive outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. As one of the few traits or dispositions that are associated with both affective and cognitive benefits, we asked whether mindfulness is associated with affective and cognitive outcomes through a shared, unitary process or through two dissociable processes. We examined this in adolescents using behavioral measures and also reanalyzed previously reported neuroimaging findings relating mindfulness training to either affect (negative emotion, stress) or cognition (sustained attention). Using multivariate regression analyses, our findings suggest that the relationships between dispositional mindfulness and affective and cognitive processes are behaviorally dissociable and converge with neuroimaging data indicating that mindfulness modulates affect and cognition through separate neural pathways. These findings support the benefits of trait mindfulness on both affective and cognitive processes, and reveal that those benefits are at least partly dissociable in the mind and brain. 2024-02-05T16:17:39Z 2024-02-05T16:17:39Z 2024-02-01 2024-02-04T04:21:57Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153458 Tsai, Nancy, Treves, Isaac N., Bauer, Clemens C. C., Scherer, Ethan, Caballero, Camila et al. 2024. "Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes." PUBLISHER_CC en https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02462-y Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Tsai, Nancy Treves, Isaac N. Bauer, Clemens C. C. Scherer, Ethan Caballero, Camila West, Martin R. Gabrieli, John D. E. Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title | Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title_full | Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title_fullStr | Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title_short | Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| title_sort | dispositional mindfulness dissociable affective and cognitive processes |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153458 |
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