Back to search

Does mindfulness training improve cognitive abilities? A systematic review of neuropsychological findings

Data up to Jan 2025

Published2010
Citations1,183
References128

Total Citations Per Year

Abstract

References (128)

Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

1988 • 30,173 citations

Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

1988 • 28,735 citations

Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions.

1935 • 17,279 citations

The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

2000 • 13,955 citations

Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain

2002 • 11,810 citations

The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being.

2003 • 11,425 citations

The Attention System of the Human Brain

1990 • 7,582 citations

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

2008 • 7,011 citations

Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness

2006 • 6,491 citations

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory

2010 • 6,012 citations

Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition.

2004 • 5,516 citations

Episodic and Semantic Memory

2007 • 3,890 citations

Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review.

2003 • 3,824 citations

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse

2001 • 3,316 citations

Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes

1999 • 2,798 citations

Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life

1995 • 2,769 citations

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

2005 • 2,576 citations

Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation

2008 • 2,323 citations

Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink?

1992 • 2,268 citations

To See or not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes

1997 • 2,263 citations

Assessment of Mindfulness by Self-Report

2004 • 2,052 citations

Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model

2004 • 2,010 citations

Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction program in the treatment of anxiety disorders

1992 • 1,894 citations

An automated version of the operation span task

2005 • 1,745 citations

Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink?

1992 • 1,583 citations

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Stress Management in Healthy People: A Review and Meta-Analysis

2009 • 1,567 citations

Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation

2007 • 1,486 citations

Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention

2007 • 1,481 citations

Organization of Memory

1973 • 1,442 citations

Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science

2006 • 1,408 citations

How does cognitive therapy prevent depressive relapse and why should attentional control (mindfulness) training help?

1995 • 1,319 citations

Structure and function of declarative and nondeclarative memory systems

1996 • 1,298 citations

The toronto mindfulness scale: Development and validation

2006 • 1,290 citations

Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review

2009 • 1,191 citations

Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training

2010 • 1,170 citations

Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition

2004 • 1,164 citations

Making Memories: Brain Activity that Predicts How Well Visual Experience Will Be Remembered

1998 • 1,119 citations

Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by US adults: 1997-2002.

2005 • 1,112 citations

Meditation, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility

2009 • 1,097 citations

Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

2003 • 1,009 citations

The power of mindful learning

1997 • 951 citations

Working memory

2010 • 930 citations

Analysis of the elements of attention: A neuropsychological approach

1991 • 863 citations

Response suppression, initiation and strategy use following frontal lobe lesions

1996 • 832 citations

Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience.

2010 • 830 citations

The Impact of Intensive Mindfulness Training on Attentional Control, Cognitive Style, and Affect

2007 • 804 citations

Affect, Cognition and Social Behavior

1991 • 789 citations

Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect Labeling

2007 • 788 citations

On the development of procedural knowledge.

1989 • 772 citations

Conducting the train of thought: Working memory capacity, goal neglect, and mind wandering in an executive-control task.

2009 • 734 citations

Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources

2007 • 731 citations

Mindfulness in Plain English

1992 • 713 citations

A systematic review of neurobiological and clinical features of mindfulness meditations

2009 • 705 citations

Clarifying the construct of mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation and the process of change in therapy.

2004 • 634 citations

A model for memory systems based on processing modes rather than consciousness

2010 • 631 citations

The attentional blink

1997 • 626 citations

Mindfulness Meditation Training in Adults and Adolescents With ADHD

2007 • 622 citations

On the development of procedural knowledge.

1989 • 547 citations

Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience.

2008 • 521 citations

What the Buddha Taught

1959 • 509 citations

Perils and promise in defining and measuring mindfulness: Observations from experience.

2004 • 495 citations

Mindfulness Training for Elementary School Students

2005 • 494 citations

Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population.

2006 • 480 citations

Mindfulness‐based stress reduction and cancer: a meta‐analysis

2008 • 468 citations

Multilingual Aphasia Examination

2017 • 457 citations

Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task

2007 • 455 citations

A Randomized Trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children: Promoting Mindful Attention to Enhance Social-Emotional Resiliency in Children

2009 • 455 citations

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

1992 • 442 citations

Meditation and the neuroscience of consciousness: an introduction

2007 • 434 citations

Mindfulness‐based approaches: are they all the same?

2011 • 430 citations

Recent developments in working memory

1998 • 428 citations

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients.

2000 • 408 citations

Understanding implicit memory: A cognitive neuroscience approach.

1992 • 392 citations

Meditation and attention: A comparison of the effects of concentrative and mindfulness meditation on sustained attention

1999 • 392 citations

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients.

2000 • 391 citations

A preliminary investigation of the effects of experimentally induced mindfulness on emotional responding to film clips.

2010 • 376 citations

The power of mindful learning

1997 • 365 citations

Age effects on gray matter volume and attentional performance in Zen meditation

2007 • 357 citations

Empirical explorations of mindfulness: Conceptual and methodological conundrums.

2010 • 342 citations

On the evolutionary origins of executive functions

2008 • 329 citations

Meditation can reduce habitual responding.

2005 • 323 citations

Mindfulness‐based stress reduction and attentional control

2007 • 312 citations

Does Mindfulness Meditation Improve Anxiety and Mood Symptoms? A Review of the Controlled Research

2007 • 310 citations

Measuring Alertness

2008 • 304 citations

Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: An experimental study with the elderly.

1989 • 291 citations

Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: An experimental study with the elderly.

1989 • 275 citations

The effects of mindfulness on executive processes and autobiographical memory specificity

2009 • 275 citations

Greater efficiency in attentional processing related to mindfulness meditation

2009 • 274 citations

The psychological and neurophysiological concomitants of mindfulness forms of meditation

2007 • 271 citations

Assessment of the Continuous Performance Test: Reliability and validity in a nonreferred sample.

1991 • 251 citations

Images of Mindfulness

2000 • 251 citations

Mindfulness and psychological process.

2010 • 251 citations

Effects of Level of Meditation Experience on Attentional Focus: Is the Efficiency of Executive or Orientation Networks Improved?

2007 • 249 citations

Working memory capacity and suppression of intrusive thoughts

2005 • 240 citations

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: Evaluating current evidence and informing future research.

2007 • 225 citations

Executive control emerging from dynamic interactions between brain systems mediating language, working memory and attentional processes

2004 • 219 citations

Working memory capacity and attention network test performance

2006 • 219 citations

Attentional processes and meditation

2010 • 216 citations

Effects of mindfulness on meta-awareness and specificity of describing prodromal symptoms in suicidal depression.

2010 • 212 citations

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as an adjuvant to pharmacotherapy in patients with panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder

2009 • 211 citations

Changes in Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation in an Exposure-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

2008 • 192 citations

Mindfulness: A promising intervention strategy in need of further study.

2003 • 181 citations

Brief mindfulness training for attentional problems after traumatic brain injury: A randomised control treatment trial

2002 • 168 citations

Autobiographical memory specificity and the course of major depressive disorder

2002 • 164 citations

Mindfulness and reduced cognitive reactivity to sad mood: Evidence from a correlational study and a non-randomized waiting list controlled study

2009 • 163 citations

Classical Mindfulness

2009 • 162 citations

The Relation Between Self-Report Mindfulness and Performance on Tasks of Sustained Attention

2008 • 141 citations

Theta Phase Synchrony and Conscious Target Perception: Impact of Intensive Mental Training

2008 • 133 citations

Age effects on attentional blink performance in meditation

2009 • 123 citations

Testing mindfulness with perceptual and cognitive factors: External vs. internal encoding, and the cognitive failures questionnaire

2007 • 120 citations

A model for the levels of concentrative meditation

1977 • 116 citations

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment.

1966 • 103 citations

Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness

2007 • 99 citations

Evaluation of the breathworks mindfulness‐based pain management programme: effects on well‐being and multiple measures of mindfulness

2009 • 93 citations

An Overview of Attention: Behavior and Brain

2007 • 92 citations

Social problem solving and autobiographical memory in non‐clinical depression

1997 • 85 citations

The relationship between autobiographical memory specificity and depressed mood following a stressful life event: A prospective study

2005 • 82 citations

Zen Meditation: An Integration of Current Evidence

2009 • 76 citations

Understanding Memory Dysfunction

2009 • 72 citations

Meditators and non-meditators on sustained and executive attentional performance

2010 • 65 citations

Mindfulness: A Promising Intervention Strategy in Need of Further Study

2003 • 50 citations

Mindfulness and experiential avoidance as predictors and outcomes of the narrative emotional disclosure task

2009 • 36 citations

Associations between Mindfulness and Implicit Cognition and Self-Reported Affect

2009 • 32 citations

Impact of two sessions of mindfulness training on attention

2009 • 25 citations

Differences in Experience among Mindfulness Meditators

1987 • 21 citations

Mahayana Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice

2009 • 16 citations

Mindfulness Training for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

2010 • 5 citations

Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice

1995 • 3 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...