Study: Meditation Improves Cognitive Skills in Four Days

If you are still undecided whether to sign up for that meditation class, perhaps this piece of research news would do the trick.

A study published on the journal Consciousness and Cognition found that 20 minutes of meditation each day can improve cognitive skills in as short as four days.

The research, which involved 63 students randomly split into two groups, trained one group on mindfulness meditation while the other group listened to J.R.R. Tolkein's fantasy novel, The Hobbit. Before and after the experiment, students from both groups were assessed on their mood and cognitive functions, including memory, concentration and visual attention.

A total of 49 students completed the experiment. All of them reported an improvement in mood, but only students in the meditation group fared a noticeable improvement in cognitive abilities. They scored consistently higher averages than those in the listening group on all tests. (MORE)

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