The mindful eye: Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in meditators and non-meditators |
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| Affiliation: | 1. King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Department of Psychology, London, UK;2. King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Department of Neuroimaging, London, UK;3. Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;4. NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundThis study examined the effects of cultivated (i.e. developed through training) and dispositional (trait) mindfulness on smooth pursuit (SPEM) and antisaccade (AS) tasks known to engage the fronto-parietal network implicated in attentional and motion detection processes, and the fronto-striatal network implicated in cognitive control, respectively.MethodsSixty healthy men (19–59 years), of whom 30 were experienced mindfulness practitioners and 30 meditation-naïve, underwent infrared oculographic assessment of SPEM and AS performance. Trait mindfulness was assessed using the self-report Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ).ResultsMeditators, relative to meditation-naïve individuals, made significantly fewer catch-up and anticipatory saccades during the SPEM task, and had significantly lower intra-individual variability in gain and spatial error during the AS task. No SPEM or AS measure correlated significantly with FFMQ scores in meditation-naïve individuals.ConclusionsCultivated, but not dispositional, mindfulness is associated with improved attention and sensorimotor control as indexed by SPEM and AS tasks. |
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| Keywords: | Mindfulness Meditation Antisaccade Control Attention Intra-individual variability Dispositional mindfulness |
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