How does mindfulness modulate self-regulation in pre-adolescent children? An integrative neurocognitive review

TY - JOUR

T1 - How does mindfulness modulate self-regulation in pre-adolescent children?

T2 - An integrative neurocognitive review

AU - Kaunhoven, Rebekah Jane

AU - Dorjee, Dusana

N1 - © 2017, Published by Elsevier Ltd.

PY - 2017/3

Y1 - 2017/3

N2 - Pre-adolescence is a key developmental period in which complex intrinsic volitional methods of self-regulation are acquired as a result of rapid maturation within the brain networks underlying the self-regulatory processes of attention control and emotion regulation. Fostering adaptive self-regulation skills during this stage of development has strong implications for physical health, emotional and socio-economic outcomes during adulthood. There is a growing interest in mindfulness-based programmes for pre-adolescents with initial findings suggesting self-regulation improvements, however, neurodevelopmental studies on mindfulness with pre-adolescents are scarce. This analytical review outlines an integrative neuro-developmental approach, which combines self-report and behavioural assessments with event related brain potentials (ERPs) to provide a systemic multilevel understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms of mindfulness in pre-adolescence. We specifically focus on the N2, error related negativity (ERN), error positivity (Pe), P3a, P3b and late positive potential (LPP) ERP components as indexes of mindfulness related modulations in non-volitional bottom-up self-regulatory processes (salience detection, stimulus driven orienting and mind wandering) and volitional top-down self-regulatory processes (endogenous orienting and executive attention).

AB - Pre-adolescence is a key developmental period in which complex intrinsic volitional methods of self-regulation are acquired as a result of rapid maturation within the brain networks underlying the self-regulatory processes of attention control and emotion regulation. Fostering adaptive self-regulation skills during this stage of development has strong implications for physical health, emotional and socio-economic outcomes during adulthood. There is a growing interest in mindfulness-based programmes for pre-adolescents with initial findings suggesting self-regulation improvements, however, neurodevelopmental studies on mindfulness with pre-adolescents are scarce. This analytical review outlines an integrative neuro-developmental approach, which combines self-report and behavioural assessments with event related brain potentials (ERPs) to provide a systemic multilevel understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms of mindfulness in pre-adolescence. We specifically focus on the N2, error related negativity (ERN), error positivity (Pe), P3a, P3b and late positive potential (LPP) ERP components as indexes of mindfulness related modulations in non-volitional bottom-up self-regulatory processes (salience detection, stimulus driven orienting and mind wandering) and volitional top-down self-regulatory processes (endogenous orienting and executive attention).

KW - Adolescent

KW - Attention

KW - Brain

KW - Child

KW - Emotions

KW - Evoked Potentials

KW - Humans

KW - Mindfulness

KW - Journal Article

KW - Review

KW - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

KW - Mechanisms

KW - Theory

KW - Attention control

KW - Pre-adolescents

KW - Neurocognitive

KW - Emotion regulation

KW - Self-regulation

KW - Event-related potential

KW - Neuroscience

KW - Development

KW - Children

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010289846&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.007

DO - 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.007

M3 - Review article

C2 - 28108415

SN - 0149-7634

VL - 74

SP - 163

EP - 184

JO - Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

JF - Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

IS - Pt A

ER -