Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2024

Reduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena

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While consciousness is typically considered equivalent to mental contents, certain meditation practices-including open monitoring (OM)-are said to enable a unique conscious state where meditators can experience mental content from a de-reified perspective as "ongoing phenomena." Phenomenologically, such a state is considered as reduction of intentionality, the mental act upon mental content. We hypothesised that this de-reified state would be characterised by reduced mental actional processing of affording objects. We recruited two groups of participants, meditators with long-term experience in cultivating a de-reified state, and demographically-matched novice meditators. Participants performed a task with images in two configurations-where objects did (highaffordance) and did not imply actions (low-affordance)-following both a baseline and OM-induced de-reified state, along with EEG recordings. While long-term meditators exhibited preferential processing of high-affordance images compared to low-affordance images during baseline, such an effect was abolished during the OM state, as hypothesised. For novices, however, the highaffordance configuration was preferred over the low-affordance one both during baseline and OM. Perceptual durations of objects across conditions positively correlated with the degree of µ-rhythm desynchronization, indicating that neural processing of affordance impacted perceptual awareness. Our results indicate that OM styles of meditation may help in mentally decoupling otherwise automatic cognitive processing of mental actions by affording objects.

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hal-04949615 , version 1 (15-02-2025)

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Sucharit Katyal, Oussama Abdoun, Hugues Mounier, Antoine Lutz. Reduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14 (1), pp.10130. ⟨10.1038/s41598-024-60934-6⟩. ⟨hal-04949615⟩
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