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ERIC Number: EJ1387075
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2325-3193
EISSN: EISSN-2325-3215
A Single Session of Mindfulness Meditation Expedites Immediate Motor Memory Consolidation to Improve Wakeful Offline Learning
Brown, James O.; Chatburn, Alex; Wright, David L.; Immink, Maarten A.
Journal of Motor Learning and Development, v11 n1 p45-70 Apr 2023
Posttraining meditation has been shown to promote wakeful memory stabilization of explicit motor sequence information in learners who are experienced meditators. We investigated the effect of single-session mindfulness meditation on wakeful and sleep-dependent forms of implicit motor memory consolidation in meditation naïve adults. Immediately after training with a target implicit motor sequence, participants (N = 20, eight females, 23.9 ± 3.3 years) completed either a 10-min mindfulness meditation (N = 10) or a control listening task before exposure to task interference induced by training with a novel implicit sequence. Target sequence performance was tested following 5-hr wakeful and 15-hr postsleep periods. Bayesian inference was applied to group comparisons of mean reaction time (RT) changes across training, interference, wakeful, and postsleep timepoints. Relative to control conditions, posttraining meditation reduced RT slowing between target sequence training and interference sequence introduction (BF[subscript 10] [Bayes factors] = 6.61) and supported RT performance gains over the wakeful period (BF[subscript 10] = 8.34). No group differences in postsleep RT performance were evident (BF[subscript 10] = 0.38). These findings illustrate that posttraining mindfulness meditation expedites wakeful, but not sleep-dependent, offline learning with implicit motor sequences. Previous meditation experience is not required to obtain wakeful consolidation gains from posttraining mindfulness meditation.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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