PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Default Mode Network, Attentional Blink, Temporoparietal Junction
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Effect of mindfulness of healthy people compared to the effect on people with clinical disorders: mindfulness manipulations. Instruct people during the experiment to watch their breath, etc. Having subjects go through training program: experimental tasks. Compare mindfulness to other control tasks: brain change measures fmri or pet that looks at blood flow. Look at morphological features (e. g. cortical thickness, grey matter mass) Eeg measures that look at neural networks (important compared to studies that look at individual brain structures: what is mindfulness, sustained and receptive awareness of somatosensory and cognitive events, eastern contemplative practices. Constant and bare presence of mind : western clinical treatments. Decreases conflict interference: tested using stroop task, receptive attention. Decreases elaborate stimulus processing: tested using attentional blink task (involving the phenomenon that the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when appearing close in time to the first) Decreases emotional volatility/reactivity: tested using international affective picture system, introspective awareness.
