DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL SENSITIVITY AMONG MINDFULNESS MEDITATORS AND NON-MEDITATORS
DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL SENSITIVITY AMONG MINDFULNESS MEDITATORS AND NON-MEDITATORS
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DOI：
10.2466/pms.1984.58.3.727
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
DYSART, M
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作者：
BROWN, D;FORTE, M;DYSART, M
使用光的视镜表现来测试三组佛教正念冥想练习者和非冥想对照组的视觉敏感性差异。与非冥想者相比，冥想者能够察觉到持续时间较短的闪光。冥想组之间没有差异。两组之间在区分间隔较近的连续闪光的能力上没有差异。对于冥想者来说，单次闪光的较低检测阈值可能反映了灵敏度的持久增长，也许是正念冥想对某些感知习惯模式的长期影响。对连续闪光的辨别缺乏显著差异可能反映了其他感知习惯模式对修改的抵抗。研究结果支持了佛教文献中关于冥想的陈述，这些陈述涉及在练习正念时遇到的感知变化。
Tachistoscopic presentation of light flashes was used to test for differences in visual sensitivity among 3 groups of practitioners of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and non-meditator-controls. Meditation practitioners were able to detect light flashes of shorter duration than the non-meditators. There were no differences among the meditator groups. There were no differences among the groups in ability to discriminate between closely spaced successive light flashes. The lower detection threshold for single light flashes for the meditators may reflect an enduring increase in sensitivity, perhaps the long-term effects of the practice of mindfulness meditation on certain perceptual habit patterns. The lack of significant differences in the discrimination of successive light flashes probably reflects the resistance of other perceptual habit patterns to modification. The results support the statements found in Buddhist texts on meditation concerning the changes in perception encountered during the practice of mindfulness.