Buddhist Deity Meditation Temporarily Augments Visuospatial Abilities, Study Suggests

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 17:35 in Psychology & Sociology

The results showed that following the meditation period, practitioners of the DY style of meditation showed a dramatic improvement on both the mental rotation task and the visual memory task compared to OP practitioners and controls. These results indicate that DY meditation allows practitioners to access greater levels of visuospatial memory resources, compared to when they are not meditating.

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