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- Title
Meditation-Induced States, Vagal Tone, and Breathing Activity Are Related to Changes in Auditory Temporal Integration.
- Authors
Linares Gutierrez, Damisela; Kübel, Sebastian; Giersch, Anne; Schmidt, Stefan; Meissner, Karin; Wittmann, Marc
- Abstract
This study is based on the relationship between meditation, the present moment, and psychophysiology. We employed the metronome task to operationalize the extension of the present moment. A pre-post longitudinal study was conducted. The performance in the metronome task was compared before and after the interventions (meditation, story). The aim was to assess whether physiological changes (heart, breathing) during meditation influence the temporal-integration (TI) of metronome beats. Mindfulness meditators either meditated (n = 41) or listened to a story (n = 43). The heart and breathing activity were recorded during the intervention and compared to a resting-state condition. By applying path analyses we found that meditation led to an increase of the duration of integration intervals at the slowest metronome frequency (inter-stimulus interval, ISI = 3 s). After meditation, the higher the heart-rate variability (i.e., the root mean square of successive differences, RMSSD), the longer the duration of integration intervals at the fastest frequency (ISI = 0.33 s). Moreover, the higher the breathing rate during meditation, the greater the integration of intervals at ISI = 1 s. These findings add evidence to meditation-induced changes on the TI of metronome beats and the concept of the embodiment of mental functioning.
- Subjects
VAGAL tone; HEART beat; TEMPORAL integration; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; MINDFULNESS; MEDITATION
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2019, Vol 9, Issue 5, p51
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs9050051