Mindful Awareness Related to Working Memory Capacity and Response Inhibition

A study of components of mindfulness and underlying cognitive constructs found that higher self-reported mindful awareness (but not acceptance) was related to stronger performance on two measures of WMC (r=.29; r=.32) and multiple measures of response inhibition, including behavioral inhibition (r=-.25), cognitive inhibition (r=-.28), and interference control (r = -.25).