https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-attentional-control Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-attentional-controlSix studies on archers in four years, and two answers that cannot be reconciled. On the supporting side there is a before-and-after on twenty-three Taiwanese university archers who, after eight sessions over four weeks, become faster in every condition of the Stroop task (in the hardest from 33.7 to 29.0 seconds) and report more attentional control; there is a group from the Turkish national squad reporting more observing, more acting with awareness and a better ability to refocus; and there is a small Indonesian study, the only one with a comparison group, in which six club archers rise from 16 to 21.7 points on the grid test while the six who do nothing stay at 16.3. Against it are the data that isolate the archers within the Chinese national archery and shooting squad: twenty-five archers do not change their reaction time on the attention network test (from 510 to 509 milliseconds, p = 0.837) and fourteen do not improve their perception of breathing, which was already close to the maximum; and in Hong Kong twelve weeks of a programme move only one of the five facets of mindfulness. Before all of them comes a one-year follow-up of an American programme on archers, golfers and runners together, in which task-irrelevant thoughts during competition decrease: it points the same way, but the archers number four and are not separated from the others. None of the studies is randomised and only one has a comparison group, with six people per arm, so part of the gains on tests repeated after a few weeks may simply be practice.claim:mindfulness-controllo-attenzione:revision:2026-03-24:2Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-attentional-controlclaim:mindfulness-controllo-attenzione:new_claim:2026-01-30:contestatoFri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT