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Mindfulness May Make Memories Less Accurate
- yayana 8y agoIt sounds like they are seeing the same process as sleep consolidation. They should have also compared it to a nap.
- nabla9 8y ago> undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to undergo a particular 15-minute guided exercise Mindfulness studies based on complete beginners measure only what happens when you are trying to meditate the first time. Usually the first thing you discover is that you suck at being mindful. If you pick undergraduates who have never been juggling and make them juggle for 15-minutes, you don't learn how juggling affects memory. You might learn how picking up the pins affects memory.
- Daishiman 8y agoBoy am I tired of badly done mindfulness studies.
- WalterSear 8y agoTry your best to observe them pass by in your hacker news feed, without reacting.
- laurex 8y agoWhile the criticism here seems earned, in my (non-scientific) experience, it seems plausible that mindfulness might have some effect on memory, in the sense that it seems to have the effect (for me!) of disentangling experience and emotion to some degree, and emotion has well-documented effects on memory.