MSU - Latest News Update, Information, Photos & Videos on MSU at Lokmat Times

In the world where everyone expects people to commit fewer errors, people are continuously trying to become more efficient. And in the latest study, it has been found out that meditation can help people to become less prone to errors!A study, which has been published in--Brain Sciences, tested how open-monitoring meditation - or, the meditation that focuses awareness on feelings, thoughts or sensations as they unfold in one's mind and body alters brain activity in a way that eventually leads to increased error recognition."People's interest in meditation and mindfulness is outpacing what science can prove in terms of effects and benefits," said Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate, and study co-author."But it's amazing to me that we were able to see how one session of guided meditation can produce changes to brain activity in non-meditators," added Lin.The findings suggest that different forms of meditation can have different neurocognitive effects and Lin explained that there is little research about how open-monitoring meditation impacts error recognition."Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object, commonly your breath, but open-monitoring meditation is a bit different," Lin said."It has you tune inward and pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay close attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery," explained Lin.Lin and his MSU co-authors - William Eckerle, Ling Peng, and Jason Moser - recruited more than 200 participants to test how open-monitoring meditation affected how people detect and respond to errors.The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute open-monitoring meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography or EEG.Then, they completed a computerised distraction test."The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of neural activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses," Lin said."A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators relative to controls," added Lin.While the meditators didn't have immediate improvements to actual task performance, the researchers' findings offer a promising window into the potential of sustained meditation."These findings are a strong demonstration of what just 20 minutes of meditation can do to enhance the brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes," Moser said."It makes us feel more confident in what mindfulness meditation might really be capable of for performance and daily functioning right there at the moment," continued Moser.( With inputs from ANI )

Home

City

Latest News

Cricket

LT Premium

National

International

Maharashtra

Opinions

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Nagpur

Entertainment

Photos

Business

Technology

Sports

Lifestyle

Social Viral

Lokmat Games

Health

Lok Sabha Election 2024

Heatwave In India

Mumbai Water Cut

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election

IPL 2024

Salman Khan

MsuFOLLOW

Msu, Latest News

Health :Mobile stroke units improve outcomes, reduce disability among stroke patients: Study

Stroke patients treated via a mobile stroke unit (MSU) received clot-busting medications faster and more often - and recovered significantly better than patients who receive regular emergency care by standard ambulance, according to late-breaking res ...

Health :Narcissism begins to fade away as you land your first job

Parents, there is no need to worry much if your teenage kid is throwing tantrums, and just wait for him or her to land first job. Narcissism being full of yourself, sensitive to criticism and imposing your opinion on others declines over time and w ...

Lifestyle :Here's how you can become less error prone and more efficient!

In the world where everyone expects people to commit fewer errors, people are continuously trying to become more efficient. And in the latest study, it has been found out that meditation can help people to become less prone to errors! ...