Meditation promotes insightful problem-solving by keeping people in a mindful and alert conscious state
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| 作者 | Ren Jun1; Huang ZhiHui1; Luo Jing2 ; Wei GaoXia2; Ying XiaoPing3; Ding ZhiGuang4; Wu YiBin5; Luo Fei2; Ren, J
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| 刊名 | SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES
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| 出版日期 | 2011-10-01 |
| 卷号 | 54期号:10页码:961-965 |
| 关键词 | meditation insight problem solving |
| ISSN号 | 1674-7305 |
| 英文摘要 | Although previous studies have shown that sleep can inspire insight, it is still unclear whether meditation can promote insight. Meditation differs from other types of passive rest such as relaxation and sleep because it requires full consciousness and mindfulness of targets such as one's breathing. Forty-eight university students without meditation experience were recruited to learn a simple meditation technique. They were given a list of 10 insight problems to solve (the pre-test session). In this study, we focused on the unsolved problems and examined if they could be successfully solved after a 20 min rest interval with or without meditation. Results showed that relative to the control group that listened to Chinese or English words and made a language judgment, the groups who learned meditation successfully solved significantly more failed problems from the pre-test session, providing direct evidence for the role of meditation in promoting insight. Further analysis showed that maintaining a mindful and alert state during meditation (raising a hand to report every 10 deep breaths compared to every 100 deep breaths) resulted in more insight regarding the failed items from the pre-test session. This implies that it was watchfulness in meditation, rather than relaxation, that actually contributed to insight. Consistently, in the meditation session or control task, the percentage of alpha waves-a brain index of mental relaxation-was negatively correlated with insight. These results suggest a meditation-based insight-promoting mechanism different from that involved in passive rest such as relaxation and sleep. |
| 收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000298196100010 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13789]  |
| 专题 | 心理研究所_中国科学院心理健康重点实验室 |
| 通讯作者 | Ren, J |
| 作者单位 | 1.Zhejiang Normal Univ, Coll Educ, Jinhua 321004, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Sociol, Beijing 100026, Peoples R China 4.Hebei Med Univ, Dept Social Sci, Shijiazhuang 050015, Peoples R China 5.Beijing Easy Monitor Technol Co Ltd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ren Jun,Huang ZhiHui,Luo Jing,et al. Meditation promotes insightful problem-solving by keeping people in a mindful and alert conscious state[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES,2011,54(10):961-965. |
| APA | Ren Jun.,Huang ZhiHui.,Luo Jing.,Wei GaoXia.,Ying XiaoPing.,...&Ren, J.(2011).Meditation promotes insightful problem-solving by keeping people in a mindful and alert conscious state.SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES,54(10),961-965. |
| MLA | Ren Jun,et al."Meditation promotes insightful problem-solving by keeping people in a mindful and alert conscious state".SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 54.10(2011):961-965. |
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