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A summary for us laypeople [1]. 'The authors suggest that people who deliberate less are better at implicit learning because they have a wider span of attentio

A summary for us laypeople [1]. 'The authors suggest that people who deliberate less are better at implicit learning because they have a wider span of attention and focus on a wider variety of stimuli. In turn, this makes them more likely to capture relevant associations in complex tasks.' 'But they also found several positive correlations between mindfulness and previously investigated cognitive and psychological health outcomes, “supporting the idea of a tradeoff in benefit,” Stillman says.' 1: http://www.georgetown.edu/research/news/mindfulness-cognitive-aging-study.html http://www.georgetown.edu/research/news/mindfulness-cognitiv...

JohnnyBrown 12y ago
Better: quote the actual authors. > We therefore tested whether the mindfulness trait predicted a reduction of grammatically congruent preferences ... Mindfulness was shown to correlate negatively with grammatically congruent responses > Mindfulness was measured using the Dutch version (de Bruin, Topper, Muskens, Bogels, & Kamphuis, 2012) of the 39 item Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ, Baer et al. (2006)). > Working memory (WM) performance over sessions was analyzed with repeated-measures ANOVA. WM performance (LEVENSHTEIN) was indexed by mean Levenshtein distance between target sequence and remembered sequence ... Low Levenshtein distances therefore represent good WM performance, and high Levenshtein distance poor WM performance. The WM variable represents mean distance between target sequences subjects were exposed to before they were told there was a pattern, and the sequences they generated attempting to recall them after being told there was a pattern. The phrase, "grammatically congruent responses" appears only in the abstract, but it probably refers to the same thing as WM. Sometimes, it's best to let your pattern matcher do its thing. Label your axes, kids.

JohnnyBrown 12y ago

Better: quote the actual authors. > We therefore tested whether the mindfulness trait predicted a reduction of grammatically congruent preferences ... Mindfulness was shown to correlate negatively with grammatically congruent responses > Mindfulness was measured using the Dutch version (de Bruin, Topper, Muskens, Bogels, & Kamphuis, 2012) of the 39 item Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ, Baer et al. (2006)). > Working memory (WM) performance over sessions was analyzed with repeated-measures ANOVA. WM performance (LEVENSHTEIN) was indexed by mean Levenshtein distance between target sequence and remembered sequence ... Low Levenshtein distances therefore represent good WM performance, and high Levenshtein distance poor WM performance. The WM variable represents mean distance between target sequences subjects were exposed to before they were told there was a pattern, and the sequences they generated attempting to recall them after being told there was a pattern. The phrase, "grammatically congruent responses" appears only in the abstract, but it probably refers to the same thing as WM. Sometimes, it's best to let your pattern matcher do its thing. Label your axes, kids.