Featured Research: Mindfulness and Meditation

Mindfulness May Make Memories Less Accurate

The mechanism that seems to underlie the benefits of mindfulness might also affect people’s ability to determine the origin of a given memory… More
Mind Over Matter

Humans are an easily distracted species, but we’ve always longed for ways to regulate our own attention. Psychological science has shed a lot of light on this issue, says APS William James Fellow Michael I. Posner… More
Brief Mindfulness Training May Boost Test Scores, Working Memory

A study of actual university students shows that mindfulness training may help to boost standardized test scores and improve working memory… More
Observation Skills May be Key Ingredient to Creativity

University of Amsterdam researchers explored whether there could be a link between various aspects of mindfulness and aspects of creative thinking… More
Can Meditation Make You a More Compassionate Person?

Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but research suggests that meditation may also have impacts on interpersonal harmony and compassion… More
Teaching The Neurons To Meditate

Studies show that Buddhist monks, who have spent thousands of hours of meditating, have distinct patterns of brain activity. But findings suggest brain activity could change after just a short period of practice… More