Rudnicki Konrad, Schepers Luna, Rummens Koen, Joris Glen, Poels Karolien
The Antwerp Social Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Centre for Visibility Design, Institute of Design and Visual Interaction, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2025 Jul 11. doi: 10.1007/s10484-025-09728-8.
The growing popularity of application-based meditation has driven the development of new technological features in this field such as the use of cardiac biofeedback, aimed at helping users train their attention to interoceptive stimuli while meditating. However, despite the innovativeness of this approach, the effectiveness of cardiac biofeedback-assisted meditation in enhancing interoception and its specific advantages in this context remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate whether a limited number of brief meditation sessions enhanced with cardiac biofeedback improves interoceptive accuracy, sensibility, and awareness more effectively than only using a meditation application. A randomized controlled trial of a 2-week intervention was conducted with participants who had no prior meditation experience (N = 105) assigned into one of three groups: a cardiac biofeedback-assisted meditation group, an app-based meditation group and a non-meditating control group. Interoceptive accuracy, sensibility and awareness were measured using the Heartbeat Discrimination Task. The findings indicated that interoceptive awareness increased from pre- to post-test across all participants, including the control group. No changes were observed in interoceptive sensibility. However, interoceptive accuracy improved in the two meditating conditions, but only among participants with positive user experience with their meditation devices.
基于应用程序的冥想越来越受欢迎，推动了该领域新技术功能的发展，例如使用心脏生物反馈，旨在帮助用户在冥想时训练对体内感觉刺激的注意力。然而，尽管这种方法具有创新性，但心脏生物反馈辅助冥想在增强内感受方面的有效性及其在这种情况下的具体优势仍不明确。本研究旨在调查与仅使用冥想应用程序相比，有限次数的、通过心脏生物反馈增强的简短冥想课程是否能更有效地提高内感受准确性、敏感性和意识。对105名无冥想经验的参与者进行了一项为期2周干预的随机对照试验，将他们分为三组：心脏生物反馈辅助冥想组、基于应用程序的冥想组和非冥想对照组。使用心跳辨别任务测量内感受准确性、敏感性和意识。研究结果表明，包括对照组在内的所有参与者从测试前到测试后内感受意识均有所提高。内感受敏感性未观察到变化。然而，在两种冥想条件下内感受准确性均有所提高，但仅在对其冥想设备有积极用户体验的参与者中出现这种情况。
