• Español
    • English
  • English 
    • Español
    • English
  • Login
BIBLIOTECA
ColeccionesPolíticasContacto
View Item 
  •   UTDT Repository
  • Investigación y publicaciones
  • Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
  • Escuela de Negocios
  • Centros y comunidades
  • Laboratorio de Neurociencia
  • Artículos en Acceso Abierto
  • View Item
  •   UTDT Repository
  • Investigación y publicaciones
  • Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
  • Escuela de Negocios
  • Centros y comunidades
  • Laboratorio de Neurociencia
  • Artículos en Acceso Abierto
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition

Thumbnail
View/Open
2013-Melloni-Preliminary evidence about the ef.pdf (508.3Kb)
Metadata
Show full item record
Author/s:
Melloni, Margherita
Sedeño, Lucas
Couto, Blas
Reynoso, Martín
Gelormini, Carlos
Favaloro, Roberto
Canales-Johnson, Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
Manes, Facundo
Ibáñez, Agustín
Date:
2013-12-23
Abstract
Background: Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. In this study, we selected a behavioral measure of interoceptive sensitivity (heartbeat detection task, HBD) to compare the effect of meditation practice on interoceptive sensitivity among long term practitioners (LTP), short term meditators (STM, subjects that completed a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program) and controls (non-meditators). All participants were examined with a battery of different tasks including mood state, executive function and social cognition tests (emotion recognition, empathy and theory of mind). Findings: Compared to controls, both meditators’ groups showed lower levels of anxiety and depression, but no improvement in executive function or social cognition performance was observed (except for lower scores compared to controls only in the personal distress dimension of empathy). More importantly, meditators’ performance did not differ from that of nonmeditators regarding cardiac interoceptive sensitivity. Conclusion: Results suggest no influence of meditation practice in cardiac interoception and in most related social cognition measures. These negative results could be partially due to the fact that awareness of heartbeat sensations is not emphasized during mindfulness/vipassana meditation and may not be the best index of the awareness supported by the practice of meditation.
URI:
https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-9-47
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11078
Collections
  • Artículos en Acceso Abierto


Página de ayuda al investigador
Horarios de atención
Campus Alcorta
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350 (C1428BCW)
Sáenz Valiente 1010 (C1428BIJ)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
P: (54 11) 5169 7000

 

 



Página de ayuda al investigador
Horarios de atención
Campus Alcorta
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350 (C1428BCW)
Sáenz Valiente 1010 (C1428BIJ)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
P: (54 11) 5169 7000