"Attentional control"

Mindfulness Training and Attentional Control in Older Adults: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions have been found to improve facets of attentional control. However, comparison with active control groups has been scarce, and few studies have examined mindfulness as a means to ameliorate age-related …

Dispositional mindfulness and the wandering mind: Implications for attentional control in older adults

Age-related cognitive decline brings decreases in functional status. Dispositional mindfulness, the tendency towards present-moment attention, is hypothesized to correspond with enhanced attention, whereas mind-wandering may be detrimental to …