Brief mindfulness induction reduces inattentional blindness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-70

  Schofield, Timothy P ^a   Creswell, J David ^b   Denson, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive depletion; Declarative awareness; Mindfulness; Perceptual encoding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; MENTAL TASK; MINDFULNESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADULT; ATTENTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940101668     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.08.007     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Aimola Davies A.M., Waterman S., White R.C., Davies M. When you fail to see what you were told to look for: Inattentional blindness and task instructions. Consciousness and Cognition 2013, 22:221-230.
2. Allen M., Dietz M., Blair K.S., van Beek M., Rees G., Vestergaard-Poulsen P., et al. Cognitive-affective neural plasticity following active-controlled mindfulness intervention. The Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32:15601-15610.
3. Arch J.J., Craske M.G. Laboratory stressors in clinically anxious and non-anxious individuals: The moderating role of mindfulness. Behaviour Research and Therapy 2010, 48:495-505.
4. Asano M., Kanaya S., Yokosawa K. Proofreaders show a generalized ability to allocate spatial attention to detect changes. Psychologia 2008, 51:126-141.
5. Baumeister R.F., Bratslavsky E., Muraven M., Tice D.M. Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, 74:1252.
6. Beanland V., Pammer K. Minds on the blink: The relationship between inattentional blindness and attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2012, 74:322-330.
7. Bishop S.R., Lau M.L., Shapiro S., Carlson L., Anderson N.D., Carmody J., et al. Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2004, 11:230-241.
8. Borenstein M., Hedges L.V., Higgins J.P., Rothstein H.R. Introduction to meta-analysis 2011, John Wiley & Sons.
9. Brown K.W., Ryan R.M., Creswell J.D. Addressing fundamental questions about mindfulness. Psychological Inquiry 2007, 18:272-281.
10. Brown K.W., Weinstein N., Creswell J.D. Trait mindfulness modulates neuroendocrine and affective responses to social evaluative threat. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012, 37:2037-2041.
11. Butler B.C., Klein R. Inattentional blindness for ignored words: Comparison of explicit and implicit memory tasks. Consciousness and Cognition 2009, 18:811-819.
12. Carter E.C., McCullough M.E. After a pair of self-control-intensive tasks, sucrose swishing improves subsequent working memory performance. BMC Psychology 2013, 1:22.
13. Cartwright-Finch U., Lavie N. The role of perceptual load in inattentional blindness. Cognition 2007, 102:321-340.
14. Chabris C.F., Weinberger A., Fontaine M., Simons D.J. You do not talk about Fight Club if you do not notice Fight Club: inattentional blindness for a simulated real-world assault. i-Perception 2011, 2:150-153.
15. Creswell J.D Biological pathways linking mindfulness with health. Handbook of mindfulness: Theory, research, and practice 2014, Guilford Press, New York, NY. K.W. Brown, J.D. Creswell, R.M. Ryan (Eds.).
16. Creswell J.D., Pacilio L.E., Lindsay E.K., Brown K.W. Brief mindfulness meditation training alters psychological and neuroendocrine responses to social evaluative stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2014, 44:1-12.
17. Dehaene S., Changeux J.-P., Naccache L., Sackur J., Sergent C. Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: A testable taxonomy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2006, 10:204-211.
18. Friese M., Messner C., Schaffner Y. Mindfulness meditation counteracts self-control depletion. Consciousness and Cognition 2012, 21:1016-1022.
19. Hagger M.S., Wood C., Stiff C., Chatzisarantis N.L. Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 2010, 136:495.
20. Haines R.F A breakdown in simultaneous information processing. Presbyopia research: From molecular biology to visual adaptation (pp. 171-175) 1991, Plenum, New York. L.W. Stark, G. Obrecht (Eds.).
21. Hannon E.M., Richards A. Is inattentional blindness related to individual differences in visual working memory capacity or executive control functioning?. Perception 2010, 39:309.
22. Heppner W.L., Kernis M.H., Lakey C.E., Campbell K., Goldman B.M., Davis P.J., et al. Mindfulness as a means of reducing aggressive behavior: Dispositional and situational evidence. Aggressive Behavior 2008, 34:486-496.
23. Hofmann W., Schmeichel B.J., Baddeley A.D. Executive functions and self-regulation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2012, 16:174-180.
24. Hsieh F.Y., Bloch D.A., Larsen M.D. A simple method of sample size calculation for linear and logistic regression. Statistics in Medicine 1998, 17:1623-1634.
25. Jha A.P., Krompinger J., Baime M.J. Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 2007, 7:109-119.
26. Jha A.P., Stanley E.A., Kiyonaga A., Wong L., Gelfand L. Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. Emotion 2010, 10:54-64.
27. Kabat-Zinn J. An outpatient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: Theoretical considerations and preliminary results. General Hospital Psychiatry 1982, 4:33-47.
28. Kabat-Zinn J. Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your mind to face stress, pain and illness 1990, Dell Publishing, New York.
29. Kabat-Zinn J. Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2003, 10:144-156.
30. Kass S.J., VanWormer L.A., Mikulas W.L., Legan S., Bumgarner D. Effects of mindfulness training on simulated driving: Preliminary results. Mindfulness 2011, 2:236-241.
31. Lamme V.A. Why visual attention and awareness are different. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2003, 7:12-18.
32. Lifshitz M., Bonn N.A., Fischer A., Kashem I.F., Raz A. Using suggestion to modulate automatic processes: From Stroop to McGurk and beyond. Cortex 2013, 49(2):463-473.
33. Lutz A., Slagter H.A., Dunne J.D., Davidson R.J. Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2008, 12:163-169.
34. Mack A., Rock I. Inattentional blindness 1998, The MIT Press.
35. Masuda T., Nisbett R.E. Culture and change blindness. Cognitive Science 2006, 30:381-399.
36. Moore C.M., Egeth H. Perception without attention: evidence of grouping under conditions of inattention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1997, 23:339-352.
37. Moore A., Gruber T., Derose J., Malinowski P. Regular, brief mindfulness meditation practice improves electrophysiological markers of attentional control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2012, 6.
38. Most S.B. Setting sights higher: Category-level attentional set modulates sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Research 2013, 77:139-146.
39. Most S.B., Astur R.S. Feature-based attentional set as a cause of traffic accidents. Visual Cognition 2007, 15:125-132.
40. Most S.B., Scholl B.J., Clifford E.R., Simons D.J. What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness. Psychological Review 2005, 112(1):217.
41. Most S.B., Simons D.J., Scholl B.J., Jimenez R., Clifford E., Chabris C.F. How not to be seen: The contribution of similarity and selective ignoring to sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Science 2001, 12:9-17.
42. Nuechterlein K.H., Parasuraman R., Jiang Q. Visual sustained attention: Image degradation produces rapid sensitivity decrement over time. Science 1983, 220:327-329.
43. Pohl R.F., Erdfelder E., Hilbig B.E., Liebke L., Stahlberg D. Effort reduction after self-control depletion: The role of cognitive resources in use of simple heuristics. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2013, 25:267-276.
44. Rosenberg M., Noonan S., DeGutis J., Esterman M. Sustaining visual attention in the face of distraction: A novel gradual-onset continuous performance task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2013, 75:426-439.
45. Schmeichel B.J. Attention control, memory updating, and emotion regulation temporarily reduce the capacity for executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2007, 136:241-255.
46. Schmeichel B.J., Harmon-Jones C., Harmon-Jones E. Exercising self-control increases approach motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 99:162-173.
47. Schmeichel B.J., Vohs K. Self-affirmation and self-control: Affirming core values counteracts ego depletion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2009, 96:770-782.
48. Simons D.J. Surprising studies of visual awareness (DVD) 2003, Viscog Productions, Champaign, IL.
49. Simons D.J., Chabris C.F. Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception 1999, 28:1059-1074.
50. Simons D.J., Jensen M.S. The effects of individual differences and task difficulty on inattentional blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16:398-403.
51. Slagter H.A., Lutz A., Greischar L.L., Francis A.D., Nieuwenhuis S., Davis J.M., et al. Mental training affects distribution of limited brain resources. PLoS Biology 2007, 5(6):e138.
52. Smilek D., Enns J.T., Eastwood J.D., Merikle P.M. Relax! Cognitive strategy influences visual search. Visual Cognition 2006, 14(4-8):543-564.
53. Swettenham J., Remington A., Murphy P., Feuerstein M., Grim K., Lavie N. Seeing the unseen: Autism involves reduced susceptibility to inattentional blindness. Neuropsychology 2014.
54. Tang Y., Ma Y., Wang J., Fan Y., Feng S., Lu Q., et al. Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104:17152-17156.
55. Vandenbroucke A.R., Fahrenfort J.J., Sligte I.G., Lamme V.A. Seeing without knowing: Neural signatures of perceptual inference in the absence of report. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2013, 26:955-969.
56. Watanabe M., Cheng K., Murayama Y., Ueno K., Asamizuya T., Tanaka K., et al. Attention but not awareness modulates the BOLD signal in the human V1 during binocular suppression. Science 2011, 334:829-831.
57. Zeidan F., Martucci K.T., Kraft R.A., Gordon N.S., McHaffie J.G., Coghill R.C. Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation. The Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 31:5540-5548.