Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition

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Background: Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. In this study, we selected a behavioral measure of interoceptive...

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Autores principales: Melloni, Margherita, Sedeño, Lucas, Couto, Blas, Reynoso, Martín, Gelormini, Carlos, Favaloro, Roberto, Canales-Johnson, Andrés, Sigman, Mariano, Manes, Facundo, Ibáñez, Agustín
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
Materias:
Psicofisiología
Meditación
Cognición
Interoception
Meditation
Mindfullness
Social cognition
Heartbeat detection task
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-9-47
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11078
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topic Psicofisiología
Meditación
Cognición
Interoception
Meditation
Mindfullness
Social cognition
Heartbeat detection task
spellingShingle Psicofisiología
Meditación
Cognición
Interoception
Meditation
Mindfullness
Social cognition
Heartbeat detection task
Melloni, Margherita
Sedeño, Lucas
Couto, Blas
Reynoso, Martín
Gelormini, Carlos
Favaloro, Roberto
Canales-Johnson, Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
Manes, Facundo
Ibáñez, Agustín
Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
description Background: Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. In this study, we selected a behavioral measure of interoceptive sensitivity (heartbeat detection task, HBD) to compare the effect of meditation practice on interoceptive sensitivity among long term practitioners (LTP), short term meditators (STM, subjects that completed a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program) and controls (non-meditators). All participants were examined with a battery of different tasks including mood state, executive function and social cognition tests (emotion recognition, empathy and theory of mind). Findings: Compared to controls, both meditators’ groups showed lower levels of anxiety and depression, but no improvement in executive function or social cognition performance was observed (except for lower scores compared to controls only in the personal distress dimension of empathy). More importantly, meditators’ performance did not differ from that of nonmeditators regarding cardiac interoceptive sensitivity. Conclusion: Results suggest no influence of meditation practice in cardiac interoception and in most related social cognition measures. These negative results could be partially due to the fact that awareness of heartbeat sensations is not emphasized during mindfulness/vipassana meditation and may not be the best index of the awareness supported by the practice of meditation.
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author Melloni, Margherita
Sedeño, Lucas
Couto, Blas
Reynoso, Martín
Gelormini, Carlos
Favaloro, Roberto
Canales-Johnson, Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
Manes, Facundo
Ibáñez, Agustín
author_facet Melloni, Margherita
Sedeño, Lucas
Couto, Blas
Reynoso, Martín
Gelormini, Carlos
Favaloro, Roberto
Canales-Johnson, Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
Manes, Facundo
Ibáñez, Agustín
author_sort Melloni, Margherita
title Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
title_short Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
title_full Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
title_fullStr Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
title_sort preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
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