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October 28, 2024
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An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change

Publicated to: Nature Reviews Psychology. 3 (12): 821-834 - 2024-10-16 3(12), DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00374-1

Authors: Casedas, Luis; Schooler, Jonathan W; Vadillo, Miguel A; Lupianez, Juan

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Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Basic Psychol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Santa Barbara, CA USA - Author
Univ Granada, Dept Expt Psychol, Granada, Spain - Author
Univ Granada, Mind Brain & Behav Res Ctr CIMCYC, Granada, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Mindfulness meditation has drawn increasing attention in psychological research over the past two decades, including growing interest in its potential cognitive benefits. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that mindfulness training might improve cognitive performance, but the mechanisms underlying these benefits have not been fully characterized. In this Perspective, we integrate empirical and theoretical advances in mindfulness research with established knowledge about the mechanisms and limitations of cognitive training. We introduce the capacity-efficiency mindfulness (CEM) framework, which posits that mindfulness training modulates cognitive function by minimizing cognitive-affective interference during task performance, rather than by increasing overall cognitive resources. This framework emphasizes the critical role of mind-wandering and negative affect in disrupting efficient cognitive control and outlines key mechanisms by which mindfulness training might mitigate these factors. We review initial evidence in support of the framework, discuss its predictions and suggest research directions to test them. Mindfulness meditation improves performance in some cognitive domains, but the mechanisms that underlie this change are unclear. In this Perspective, C & aacute;sedas and colleagues synthesize mindfulness meditation and cognitive training frameworks and suggest that mindfulness training improves cognitive efficiency by reducing mind-wandering and negative affect.

Keywords

Attention systemEmotion regulationExecutive functionsIndividual-differencesMeditationMeta-awarenessPerformancStress reductionWandering mindWorking-memory capacity

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Nature Reviews Psychology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 2/221, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Psychology, Multidisciplinary. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-13:

  • Scopus: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-13:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 13.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 15 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 10.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 19 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United States of America.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (CASEDAS ALCAIDE, LUIS) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been CASEDAS ALCAIDE, LUIS.

Awards linked to the item

The authors acknowledge the support of the Spanish State Research Agency (grants JDC2022-048844-I to L.C., CNS2022-135346 to M.A.V. and PID2020-114790GB-I00 to J.L.) and "la Caixa" Foundation (grant LCF/BQ/DE18/11670002 to L.C.). The authors thank S. Goldberg and T. Coll-Martin for helpful discussions and comments on some of the ideas presented in this Perspective.