PHIL 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Binocular Rivalry, Stroop Effect, Working Memory
16 Dec 2017
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Mindfulness meditation: focus on breathing, note thoughts and let go. Spontaneous switching of images caused by adaptation. Buddhist monks can prevent image switching in binocular rivalry. Had people who mediated vs those who were trained to meditate. Results showed that meditators had less mistakes on stroop task and better mindfulness score. Meditators self select to meditate because they are good at self control. Doin well on mindfulness score makes you better at stroop task. One group did 4 20 minutes meditation sessions. Both listening to an audiobook and meditation improves mood but anxiety has a better anxiety reduction. Meditators also did better on cognitive tasks. Stress interferes with working memory and iq by affecting concentration. Mediators also show higher activation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate. Increasing attentional control increases working memory and iq. 5 year olds form implicit and explicit preferences. Expect in group members to behave better and cooperate more.
