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Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition

Overview of attention for article published in Behavioral and Brain Functions, December 2013
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Title
Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
Published in
Behavioral and Brain Functions, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/1744-9081-9-47
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Authors

Margherita Melloni, Lucas Sedeño, Blas Couto, Martin Reynoso, Carlos Gelormini, Roberto Favaloro, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Mariano Sigman, Facundo Manes, Agustin Ibanez

Abstract

Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. In this study, we selected a behavioral measure of interoceptive sensitivity (heartbeat detection task, HBD) to compare the effect of meditation practice on interoceptive sensitivity among long term practitioners (LTP), short term meditators (STM, subjects that completed a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program) and controls (non-meditators). All participants were examined with a battery of different tasks including mood state, executive function and social cognition tests (emotion recognition, empathy and theory of mind).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 3 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 403 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 70 17%
Student > Bachelor 56 13%
Student > Master 54 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 47 11%
Researcher 45 11%
Other 81 19%
Unknown 63 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 182 44%
Medicine and Dentistry 42 10%
Neuroscience 34 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 4%
Other 43 10%
Unknown 74 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 October 2018.
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#1,317,859
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Outputs from Behavioral and Brain Functions
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Outputs of similar age from Behavioral and Brain Functions
#4
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