The power of now: Brief mindfulness induction led to increased randomness of clicking sequence

Motor Control

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 238-255

  Kee, Ying Hwa ^a   Chaturvedi, Iti ^b   Wang, Chee Keng John ^a   Chen, Lung Hung ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Action; Bayesian network; Creativity; Present moment awareness; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINDFULNESS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BAYES THEOREM; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MINDFULNESS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883622123     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.17.3.238     Document Type: Article

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