Objectives

Some previous research has determined that mindfulness meditation improves cognitive abilities, whereas other research has observed impairments in cognitive processes after mindfulness meditation. The purpose of our study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness (guided body scan), mind-wandering, and breathing-focused meditation on susceptibility to false memories.

Methods

Participants studied 6 Deese-Roediger-McDermott word lists and completed a recall test after each list. They then received one of the three meditation interventions and then studied 6 more DRM word lists, again with a recall test after each. Twenty-four hours later, participants completed a recognition test.

Results

Our results suggest that the meditation intervention reduced delayed correct and false recognition, but had no effect on immediate correct or false recall.

Conclusions

Despite following a similar procedure, we failed to replicate findings of previous research. Potential explanations for this discrepancy are discussed, including adoption of a conservative response strategy and possible mood influence of the presented list items.

中文翻译：

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使用错误记忆范例来理解冥想的认知效果

目标

先前的一些研究确定正念冥想可以提高认知能力，而其他一些研究则观察到正念冥想后认知过程受到损害。我们研究的目的是研究正念（身体引导扫描），思想游荡和专注于呼吸的冥想对虚假记忆易感性的影响。

方法

参与者研究了6个Deese-Roediger-McDermott单词列表，并在每个列表之后完成了回忆测试。然后，他们接受了三种冥想干预措施之一，然后研究了6个以上的DRM单词表，每个单词表又进行了一次回忆测试。24小时后，参与者完成了识别测试。

结果

我们的结果表明，冥想干预可以减少延迟的正确和错误识别，但对立即正确或错误的回忆没有影响。

结论

尽管遵循了类似的程序，我们仍无法复制以前的研究结果。讨论了这种差异的可能解释，包括采用保守的应对策略以及所列出项目的可能情绪影响。