Brief mindfulness meditation does not significantly change alerting or orienting network efficiency¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i0 negligible
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i0 ANT alerting network scores did not differ significantly between BMM and control groups (η2 = 0.007). → Huang 2026 q3 i0 ANT orienting network scores did not differ significantly between groups (η2 = 3.153×10−5). → Huang 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Huang 2026¶

Huang, Y., Guo, J.-H., Zheng, S., Yin, R., Wang, J. & Jiang, C.-L. (2026). Enhancing attention network and neural efficiency through brief mindfulness meditation. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-026-00455-1

q3 · i0 · causal · r2

Null ANT results from the randomized pretest-posttest ANCOVA; the Alerting Network effect was "F = 0.47, p = 0.494, η2 = 0.007". Equivalence was not tested.

"However, ANCOVA did not show a signi ficant difference between the BMM and the Control groups on the Average Accuracy Rate ( F = 0.02, p = 0.833, η2 =3 . 3 5 2×1 0−4), Alerting Network ( F = 0.47, p = 0.494, η2 = 0.007), and Orienting Network (F = 0.002,p = 0.964,η2 = 3.153 × 10−5)"

Huang 2026 (2)¶

Huang, Y., Guo, J.-H., Zheng, S., Yin, R., Wang, J. & Jiang, C.-L. (2026). Enhancing attention network and neural efficiency through brief mindfulness meditation. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-026-00455-1

q3 · i0 · causal · r2

The authors' summary of the same ANT ANCOVA results: "no signi ficant effects were observed for the alerting or orienting networks", indicating selective rather than generalized behavioral improvement.

"By contrast, no signi ficant effects were observed for the alerting or orienting networks."

Discussion¶

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