Meditation and Metacontrol 5
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9 Abstract In addition to longer-term engagement in medita10 tion, the past years have seen an increasing interest in the 11 impact of single bouts of meditation on cognition. In this 12 hypothesis and theory article, we adopt the distinction be13 tween focused-attention meditation (FAM) and open14 monitoring meditation (OMM) and argue that these different 15 types of meditation have different, to some degree, opposite 16 impact on cognitive processes. We discuss evidence suggest17 ing that single bouts of FAM and OMM are sufficient to bias 18 cognitive control styles towards more versus less top-down 19 control, respectively. We conclude that all meditation tech20 niques are not equal and that successful meditation-based in21 tervention requires the theoretically guided selection of the 22 best-suited technique.
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