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Adam Hanley - Taking Your Mind Off Autopilot

Mind & Life

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What's the Primary Outcome of the Study?

The study was presented to students as an attention training study. The primary outcome was how many times the participants blinked in response to just the tone. And then at the end of the study, we brought him in to do an eye blink conditioning task. We rang a bell, which a little tone, through some headphones and puffed people in the eye with this little, short burst of air. Am, so that they learned when the bell rang, then should probably blink as much as possible. Aa, little puff in the eye. Ba, so so you are comparing the mindfulness training to this, listening to reading as a form of attention training. And then you were doing the eye blink

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