Effects of Long-Term Meditation Practices on Sensorimotor Rhythm-Based Brain-Computer Interface Learning

Sensorimotor rhythm (SMR)-based brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) provide an alternative pathway for users to perform motor control using imagery. Despite the non-invasiveness, ease of use, and low cost, this kind BCI has limitations due long training times inefficiency—that is, SMR paradigm may not work well on a subpopulation users. Meditation is mental method improve mindfulness awareness reported have positive effects one’s state. Here, we investigated behavioral electrophysiological differences between experienced meditators meditation naïve subjects in one-dimensional (1D) two-dimensional (2D) cursor tasks. We found numerical evidence that outperformed both tasks (1D 2D), there were fewer inefficient meditator group. Finally, also explored neurophysiological difference two groups showed had higher resting predictor, more stable mu rhythm, larger signal contrast than controls during task.