Abstract
<title>Abstract</title> <p>While research has established the efficacy of mindfulness in improving attentional regulation, few studies have assessed its effects using the Emotional Attentional blink (EAB) paradigm, which involves automatic attentional recovery following the presentation of an emotionally evocative stimulus. The present study tested the effect of a 10-minute mindfulness meditation on visual attention regulation via the EAB. Participants were randomized to either a mindfulness or control condition and completed an EAB task involving identification of a target image among a series of rapidly presented stimuli. Some trials included positive or negative emotional distractors. Participants in the control condition responded more slowly to negative stimuli compared to neutral stimuli, and participants in the mindfulness condition allocated greater attention to positive distractors. This study addresses gaps in the literature by empirically characterizing attention regulation as a mechanism of mindfulness in the context of emotional information.</p>