The Power of Mindfulness: Enhancing Emotional Processing, Information Avoidance, Motor Control, and Selective Attention
A study conducted by researchers at Shenzhen University in China suggests that mindfulness meditation may help mitigate the adverse effects of fatigue on emotional processing. The study involved 145 participants who were randomly assigned to either a mindfulness meditation group or a resting group. The researchers measured event-related potentials (ERPs) in the participants' brains while they completed an image processing task. The results showed that participants in the mindfulness meditation group had improved responsiveness to emotional stimuli compared to those in the resting group, indicating that mindfulness meditation may offset the negative association between fatigue and emotional processing. Further research is needed to explore this topic using different methods and measures of fatigue.