Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
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短期冥想训练提高注意力和自我调节能力
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0707678104
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发表时间：
2007-10-23
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Posner, Michael I.
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作者：
Tang, Yi-Yuan;Ma, Yinghua;Posner, Michael I.
最近的研究表明，数月到数年的密集和系统的冥想训练可以提高注意力。然而，所需的长期培训使得很难使用随机分配的参与者的条件来确认这些发现。这篇文章表明，一组随机分配到5天的冥想练习与综合身心训练方法显示出显着更好的注意力和控制压力比同样选择的对照组进行放松训练。这种训练方法来自中国传统医学，并结合了其他冥想和正念训练的各个方面。与对照组相比，实验组的40名中国大学生进行了为期5天的20分钟的综合训练，表现出更大的改善，在注意力网络测试中的冲突得分，降低焦虑，抑郁，愤怒，疲劳和更高的活力的情绪状态量表，压力相关的皮质醇显着降低，免疫反应性增加。这些结果为研究冥想训练的影响提供了一种方便的方法，即使用类似于测试药物或其他干预措施的实验和对照方法。
Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body–mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training. The training method comes from traditional Chinese medicine and incorporates aspects of other meditation and mindfulness training. Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity. These results provide a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or other interventions.