TY - GEN
T1 - Cognitive Modeling of Mindfulness Therapy
T2 - 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, DCAI 2019
AU - Andrianov, Andrei
AU - Guerriero, Edoardo
AU - Ziabari, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Yoga is a practice that is thousands of years old. This practice is also included in the modern mindfulness-based stress reduction training, and its effects on our cognitive system are supported by extensive literature that comprehend mostly fMRI studies and task-oriented experiments with control groups. In this paper, the problem of testing the effects of mindfulness therapy, with specific regard to the yoga practice, is addressed with a Network-Oriented Modelling approach. The first component of the proposed network simulates the elicitation of an extreme stressful emotion due to a strong stress-inducing event. This was done following the same line of previous papers that proposed simulations of similar processes. A second component represents the role of memory, attention and self-awareness in coping with the stressful event. Finally, the yoga practice, divided into physical movements and breathing, is modelled, to show its influence on memory, attention and self-awareness, leading in this way to a reduction of the stress level.
AB - Yoga is a practice that is thousands of years old. This practice is also included in the modern mindfulness-based stress reduction training, and its effects on our cognitive system are supported by extensive literature that comprehend mostly fMRI studies and task-oriented experiments with control groups. In this paper, the problem of testing the effects of mindfulness therapy, with specific regard to the yoga practice, is addressed with a Network-Oriented Modelling approach. The first component of the proposed network simulates the elicitation of an extreme stressful emotion due to a strong stress-inducing event. This was done following the same line of previous papers that proposed simulations of similar processes. A second component represents the role of memory, attention and self-awareness in coping with the stressful event. Finally, the yoga practice, divided into physical movements and breathing, is modelled, to show its influence on memory, attention and self-awareness, leading in this way to a reduction of the stress level.
KW - Cognitive modeling
KW - Extreme emotions
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Network-Oriented Modelling
KW - Stress
KW - Temporal-causal network
KW - Yoga
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85068607571
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85068607571#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-23887-2_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-23887-2_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068607571
SN - 9783030238865
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 79
EP - 86
BT - Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference
A2 - Herrera, Francisco
A2 - Matsui, Kenji
A2 - Rodríguez-González, Sara
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 26 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -