AUTHOR=Greenberg Jonathan , Reiner Keren , Meiran Nachshon TITLE=“Off with the Old”: Mindfulness Practice Improves Backward Inhibition JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=3 YEAR=2013 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00618 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00618 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Mindfulness practice has been linked to reduced depressive rumination and described as involving inhibition of information that has been relevant in the past and is no longer relevant in the present moment. Backward inhibition (BI) is considered to be one of the purest measures of task set inhibition, and impaired BI has been linked to depressive rumination. BI was contrasted with Competitor Rule Suppression (CRS), which is another phenomenon observed in task switching, yet one which involves episodic memory tagging of information that is currently conflicting rather than active inhibition. Although similar at baseline level, a randomly assigned group (