Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
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Intensive meditation training improves perceptual discrimination and sustained attention.
The ability to focus one's attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for extended periods of time. In the laboratory, sustained-attention failure is manifest as a decline in perceptual sensitivity with increasing time on task, known as the vigilance decrement. We investigated improvements in sustained attention with training (approximately 5...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0956-7976,1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610371339