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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 10(10), p. e0138561, 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138561

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Effortless Attention as a Biomarker for Experienced Mindfulness Practitioners

Journal article published in 2015 by Guaraci Ken Tanaka, Tolou Maslahati, Mariana Gongora, Juliana Bittencourt, Luiz Carlos Serramo Lopez, Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo, Henning Budde ORCID, Silmar Teixeira ORCID, Luis Fernando Basile, Javier Garcia Campayo, Bruna Velasques, Jose Javier Garcia Campayo, Mauricio Cagy, Pedro Ribeiro
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Abstract

Objective: The present study aimed at comparing frontal beta power between long-term (LTM) and first-time meditators (FTM), before, during and after a meditation session. We hypothesized that LTM would present lower beta power than FTM due to lower effort of attention and awareness. Methods: Twenty one participants were recruited, eleven of whom were long-term meditators. The subjects were asked to rest for 4 minutes before and after open monitoring (OM) meditation (40 minutes). Results: The two-way ANOVA revealed an interaction between the group and moment factors for the Fp1 (p