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| July 15, 2010 | Meditation boosts attention span | |
Washington: Daily meditation not only gives us a peaceful life, it also boosts attention spans, says a new study.
Katherine MacLean at the University of California Davis and her co-advisor, Clifford
Saron conducted a study, wherein thirty people went on a Buddhist meditation retreat
with B. Alan Wallace, another researcher and Buddhist scholar. Participants took
a test on a computer to measure how well they could make fine visual distinctions
and sustain visual attention. They got better at discriminating the short lines
as the training went on. Sustaining attention became easier with meditation so
they also improved their task performance over a long period of time. "Because
this task is so boring and yet is also very neutral, it's kind of a perfect index
of meditation training," says MacLean. "You realize how challenging it is to just
sit and observe something without being distracted," she added. The results are
published in Psychological Science. |
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