Medial orbital gyrus modulation during spatial perspective changes: Pre- vs. post-8 weeks mindfulness meditation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Udine, Italy;2. Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PERCRO), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy;1. Max Planck Research Group Body & Self, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany;2. Department of Neurology, Asklepios Klinikum Harburg, Hamburg, Germany;3. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany;4. Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (BCAN), Berlin, Germany;5. Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany;1. School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University of China, Guangzhou 510275, China;2. School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Shenzhen University of China, Shenzhen 518060, China;3. Psychology Department of Guang׳anMen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China;4. Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;5. National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;6. Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia;7. Radiology Department of Guang׳anMen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China;1. Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Turkey;2. Department of Psychology, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Turkey;1. Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, UK;2. Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Mindfulness meditation exercises the ability to shift to an “observer perspective”. That means learning to observe internally and externally arising stimulations in a detached perspective. Both before and after attending a 8-weeks mindfulness training (MT) participants underwent an fMRI experiment (serving as their own internal control) and solved a own-body mental transformation task, which is used to investigate embodiment and perspective taking (and an non-bodily mental transformation task as control).We found a stimulus × time-points interaction: the own-body mental transformation task (vs. non-bodily) in the post (vs. pre-MT) significantly increased activations in the medial orbital gyrus. The signal change in the right medial orbital gyrus significantly correlated with changes in a self-maturity personality scale.A brief MT caused increased activation in areas involved in self related processing and person perspective changes, together with an increase in self-maturity, consistently with the aim of mindfulness meditation that is exercising change in self perspective. |
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| Keywords: | Mindfulness meditation fMRI Own-body mental transformation Orbitofrontal cortex |
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