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Dispositional mindfulness attenuates the emotional attentional blink

Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Lavallée, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.

Consciousness and Cognition, 2019

In the emotional attentional blink, an emotionally charged distractor makes the next target hard to see at all. People higher in dispositional mindfulness showed a smaller blink, suggesting trait mindfulness buffers the attentional cost of emotional distraction.

• DOI: 10.1016/J.CONCOG.2018.11.004
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Keywords: Mindfulness · Attention

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Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Lavallée, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P. (2019). Dispositional mindfulness attenuates the emotional attentional blink. Consciousness and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CONCOG.2018.11.004

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• The protective role of long-term meditation on the decline of the executive component of attention in aging: a preliminary cross-sectional study — Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., & Piolino, P. (2016)
• The impact of state and dispositional mindfulness on prospective memory: A virtual reality study — Girardeau, J., Blondé, P., Makowski, D., Abram, M., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2020)
• The heart of cognitive control: Cardiac phase modulates processing speed and inhibition — Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Blondé, P., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P. (2020)