Meditation focused on self-observation of the body impairs metacognitive efficiency

Carlos Schmidt*, Gabriel Reyes, Mauricio Barrientos, Álvaro I. Langer, Jérôme Sackur

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Resumen

In the last decade of research on metacognition, the literature has been focused on understanding its mechanism, function and scope; however, little is known about whether metacognitive capacity can be trained. The specificity of the potential training procedure is in particular still largely unknown. In this study, we evaluate whether metacognition is trainable through generic meditation training, and if so, which component of meditation would be instrumental in this improvement. To this end, we evaluated participants’ metacognitive efficiency before and after two types of meditation training protocols: the first focused on mental cues (Mental Monitoring [MM] training), whereas the second focused on body cues (Self-observation of the Body [SoB] training). Results indicated that while metacognitive efficiency was stable in MM training group, it was significantly reduced in the SoB group after training. This suggests that metacognition should not be conceived as a stable capacity but rather as a malleable skill.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)116-125
Número de páginas10
PublicaciónConsciousness and Cognition
Volumen70
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2019
Publicado de forma externa

Nota bibliográfica

Funding Information:
We thank Vincent de Gardelle for useful discussions. We also thank Ana Maria Huile for her help in data acquisition. This research was supported by the Fund for Science and Technology (FONDECYT) Grant N° 11170775 (GR). Part of this research was also supported by the Fund for Innovation and Competitiveness of the Chilean Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism, through the Millennium Scientific Initiative , Grant N° IS130005 .

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© 2019 Elsevier Inc.

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Psicología experimental y cognitiva
  • Psicología educativa y evolutiva

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