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Meditation protects attention from aging
As you get older, your ability to concentrate usually decreases. Intensive meditation can maintain the ability to focus attention, write American psychologists in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. They followed a group of middle aged practitioners of meditation for 7 years.
Study
According to a publication from 2011 [Emotion. 2011 Apr;11(2):299-312.] this training enhanced the subjects's concentration span. In the study on which this part is going, the researchers looked up the subjects again 7 years after the training, and determined their ability to focus. During this 7 years' period, most of the subjects had continued meditating on their own.
Results
The researchers asked the subjects how many hours they had meditated over the past 7 years, and then divided them into three groups: a low practice group, a medium practice group and a high practice group. The study participants in the latter group meditated slightly more than an hour a day.
At the same time, the researchers divided the subjects into 2 age [measured at baseline] groups. Then they were able to make the figure below.
Conclusions
Zanesco emphasizes that the measured effects on the ability to concentrate in this study may not be exclusively attributable to the participants' meditative practices. "Participants' lifestyle or personality might have contributed to the observations." Zanesco hopes that future studies will bring more clarity.
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