Mindfulness meditation may make you less error prone: Study

Meditation may help people become less error prone, according to a study which is the largest of its kind with more than 200 participants.

The researchers, including those from Michigan State University in the US, tested how open monitoring, or mindfulness meditation - a technique laying focus on feelings, thoughts or sensations as they unfold in one's mind and body - altered brain activity in a way that suggests increased error recognition.

As part of the study, published in the journal Brain Sciences, the participants went through a 20-minute open monitoring meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography, or EEG.

The study noted that the participants also completed a computerized distraction test.

"The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of neural activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses," said study co-author Jeff Lin from Michigan State University.

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