Lijnzaad, Gilles (2023) Effects of Focused-Attention and Loving-Kindness Meditation Inductions on Tacit Coordination Performance: An Experimental and Cognitive Modeling Approach. Master's Thesis / Essay, Computational Cognitive Science.
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Abstract
Tacit coordination (coordinating without communication) requires the use of focal points: mutually recognized obvious options or rules. Tacit coordination has been suggested to depend on Theory of Mind, and therefore should require executive functions such as working memory, attention and inhibition. Meditation practice is hypothesized to improve these. More specifically, focused-attention meditation (FAM) has been found to improve attentional control and prosocial behavior and loving-kindness meditation (LKM) has been shown to increase social perspective-taking. The current work investigated the effects of FAM and LKM inductions on thoughts and performance during a tacit coordination task. An experiment was conducted in which dyads performed a task with the objective of repeatedly selecting the same out of four abstract images without communicating. Task performance was compared before and after a ten-minute meditation induction. Results show no significant effects of FAM or LKM on task performance, or on-task and other-focused thought, compared to the control intervention. Additionally, a cognitive model was created to examine the cognitive processes underlying tacit coordination. An instance-based learning (IBL) model played the task described above with a computer agent. Model behavior approximated human behavior only when randomness was added to its decision-making process. IBL is concluded to be insufficient in explaining human behavior during a tacit coordination task.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master's Thesis / Essay) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vugt, M.K. van and Newman, L.A. |
| Degree programme: | Computational Cognitive Science |
| Thesis type: | Master's Thesis / Essay |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2023 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2023 08:36 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/31178 |
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