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Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study

Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and attentional control with resultant effects on well-being and cognition. However, relatively little is known regar...

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Autores principales: Froeliger, Brett E., Garland, Eric L., Modlin, Leslie A., McClernon, F. Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22855674
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00048
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author Froeliger, Brett E.
Garland, Eric L.
Modlin, Leslie A.
McClernon, F. Joseph
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description Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and attentional control with resultant effects on well-being and cognition. However, relatively little is known regarding the neural substrates of meditation effects on emotion and cognition. The present study investigated the neurocognitive correlates of emotion interference on cognition in Yoga practitioners and a matched control group (CG) underwent fMRI while performing an event-related affective Stroop task. The task includes image viewing trials and Stroop trials bracketed by neutral or negative emotional distractors. During image viewing trials, Yoga practitioners exhibited less reactivity in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) to negative as compared to neutral images; whereas the CG had the opposite pattern. A main effect of valence (negative > neutral) was observed in limbic regions (e.g., amygdala), of which the magnitude was inversely related to dlPFC activation. Exploratory analyses revealed that the magnitude of amygdala activation predicted decreased self-reported positive affect in the CG, but not among Yoga practitioners. During Stroop trials, Yoga practitioners had greater activation in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) during Stroop trials when negative, compared to neutral, emotional distractor were presented; the CG exhibited the opposite pattern. Taken together, these data suggest that though Yoga practitioners exhibit limbic reactivity to negative emotional stimuli, such reactivity does not have downstream effects on later mood state. This uncoupling of viewing negative emotional images and affect among Yoga practitioners may be occasioned by their selective implementation of frontal executive-dependent strategies to reduce emotional interference during competing cognitive demands and not during emotional processing per se.
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spelling pubmed-34052812012-08-01 Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study Froeliger, Brett E. Garland, Eric L. Modlin, Leslie A. McClernon, F. Joseph Front Integr Neurosci Neuroscience Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and attentional control with resultant effects on well-being and cognition. However, relatively little is known regarding the neural substrates of meditation effects on emotion and cognition. The present study investigated the neurocognitive correlates of emotion interference on cognition in Yoga practitioners and a matched control group (CG) underwent fMRI while performing an event-related affective Stroop task. The task includes image viewing trials and Stroop trials bracketed by neutral or negative emotional distractors. During image viewing trials, Yoga practitioners exhibited less reactivity in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) to negative as compared to neutral images; whereas the CG had the opposite pattern. A main effect of valence (negative > neutral) was observed in limbic regions (e.g., amygdala), of which the magnitude was inversely related to dlPFC activation. Exploratory analyses revealed that the magnitude of amygdala activation predicted decreased self-reported positive affect in the CG, but not among Yoga practitioners. During Stroop trials, Yoga practitioners had greater activation in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) during Stroop trials when negative, compared to neutral, emotional distractor were presented; the CG exhibited the opposite pattern. Taken together, these data suggest that though Yoga practitioners exhibit limbic reactivity to negative emotional stimuli, such reactivity does not have downstream effects on later mood state. This uncoupling of viewing negative emotional images and affect among Yoga practitioners may be occasioned by their selective implementation of frontal executive-dependent strategies to reduce emotional interference during competing cognitive demands and not during emotional processing per se. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3405281/ /pubmed/22855674 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00048 Text en Copyright © 2012 Froeliger, Garland, Modlin and McClernon. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study
title Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study
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title_fullStr Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study
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title_short Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study
title_sort neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405281/
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