Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
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 se...
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paper:paper_17449081_v9_n1_p_Melloni2023-06-08T16:28:16Z Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition Sigman, Mariano Heartbeat detection task Interoception Meditation Mindfulness Social cognition adult anxiety article biological functions controlled study depression empathy executive function female heart beat human interoception male meditation middle aged mood performance priority journal social cognition theory of mind Adult Affect Anxiety Attention Awareness Depression Emotions Empathy Executive Function Female Heart Rate Humans Male Meditation Middle Aged Mindfulness Sensation Stress, Psychological Theory of Mind 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. © 2013 Melloni et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Fil:Sigman, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2013 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_17449081_v9_n1_p_Melloni http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17449081_v9_n1_p_Melloni |
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Heartbeat detection task Interoception Meditation Mindfulness Social cognition adult anxiety article biological functions controlled study depression empathy executive function female heart beat human interoception male meditation middle aged mood performance priority journal social cognition theory of mind Adult Affect Anxiety Attention Awareness Depression Emotions Empathy Executive Function Female Heart Rate Humans Male Meditation Middle Aged Mindfulness Sensation Stress, Psychological Theory of Mind |
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Heartbeat detection task Interoception Meditation Mindfulness Social cognition adult anxiety article biological functions controlled study depression empathy executive function female heart beat human interoception male meditation middle aged mood performance priority journal social cognition theory of mind Adult Affect Anxiety Attention Awareness Depression Emotions Empathy Executive Function Female Heart Rate Humans Male Meditation Middle Aged Mindfulness Sensation Stress, Psychological Theory of Mind Sigman, Mariano 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 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. © 2013 Melloni et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
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