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标题：Meditation-Induced States, Vagal Tone, and Breathing Activity Are Related to Changes in Auditory Temporal Integration
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作者：Damisela Linares Gutierrez ; Sebastian Kübel ; Anne Giersch 等
期刊名称：Behavioral Sciences
电子版ISSN：2076-328X
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：5
页码：51-68
DOI：10.3390/bs9050051
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：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.
关键词：mindfulness meditation; heart-rate variability; breathing rate; auditory temporal integration; present moment mindfulness meditation ; heart-rate variability ; breathing rate ; auditory temporal integration ; present moment