Table 2 Description of body awareness tasks.
From: The relationship between mindfulness and objective measures of body awareness: A meta-analysis
Task Name | Task Description | Study |
|---|---|---|
Blood Glucose Accuracy | Participants report blood glucose levels, compared with actual levels. | Kiken 201825 |
Heartbeat Arousal | Participants report arousal levels every minute, compared with heartbeat to calculate cross-correlation. | Sze 201030 |
Heartbeat Detection | Tones are played either concurrently or non-concurrently with heartbeat, participants detect when concurrent. | |
Heartbeat Tracking | Participants count their heartbeats over a short period, and then report total at the end. Total counted is compared to actual. | Parkin 201426, Otten 201529, Aaron 201734, Bornemann 201727, Fischer 201735 |
Joint Kinesthesia | Participants knee joints are moved until the participant detects movement. Degrees of movement is reported. | Wooten 201828 |
Joint Position Sense | Participants knee joints are moved through a range of angles. The participant reports when their knee joint reaches a target angle. The difference between the actual angle and target angle is computed. | Wooten 201828 |
Proprioceptive Drift | Participant’s proprioceptive mapping is assessed with the rubber hand illusion (Botvinick & Cohen, 1998)87 | |
Respiratory Load Detection | Participants breath through a tube, and various levels of resistance are put in the air flow. Participants detect whether or not resistor is present. | Daubenmeier 201336 |
Respiratory Load Discrimination | Participants breath through a tube, and various levels of resistance are put in the air flow. Participants rate the level of resistance, correspondence is quantified. | Daubenmeier 201336 |
Respiratory Tracking | Participants move dial to indicate breath depth. Tidal volume of breath is measured. Cross-correlation of dial ratings and tidal volume is calculated. | Daubenmeier 201336 |
Skin Conductance Arousal | Same as Heartbeat Arousal, but skin conductance and other physiological measures are compared with arousal rating. | Sze 201030 |
Tactile Detection** | Participants receive vibrating stimulus on left index finger at the threshold of detection. Report yes or no for presence of stimulus. | Mirams 201331 |
Tactile Sensitivity | Participants rate tactile sensitivity of their body parts. Ratings are compared to literature data collected by two-point discrimination. | Fox 201237 |
