ABSTRACT

Mindfulness can reduce anxiety and improve attentional control, so we tested for relationships between mindfulness and performance on word retrieval tasks. In Study 1, college students experienced a 10-min mindful breathing exercise or control condition, and participants in the mindful breathing condition correctly named more pictures than participants in the control condition. Participants also completed a self-report measure of dispositional mindfulness, but scores were unrelated to picture naming performance. In Study 2, online participants completed the mindfulness measure and attempted to produce target words that fit definitions and reported their tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states. Neither TOT rate nor correct responding correlated with mindfulness scores, replicating Study 1 results with a larger, more varied sample. Results indicate that a mindful breathing exercise can facilitate word retrieval but that self-reported dispositional mindfulness does not positively affect word retrieval.

摘要

正念可以减轻焦虑并改善注意力控制，因此我们测试了正念与单词检索任务表现之间的关系。在研究1中，大学生经历了10分钟的正念呼吸运动或控制状态，与正念呼吸状态的参与者相比，正念呼吸状态的参与者正确地命名了更多图片。参加者还完成了关于自觉性正念的自我报告测评，但分数与图片命名性能无关。在研究2中，在线参与者完成了正念度测量，并尝试生成符合定义的目标词并报告了他们的舌尖（TOT）状态。TOT率或正确答案均与正念得分无关，因此使用更大，更多样化的样本复制研究1的结果。