The hypothesis of mindfulness has progressively become a focus of research related to meditation practices and techniques. There is a growing body of research indicating clinical efficacy from therapeutic use, while cognitive nuroscience has provided an insight into the brain regions and mechanisms involved. Significantly, these approaches converge to suggest that attention is an important mechanism with trainable sub-components. This article discusses the role of attention and argues that memory has been neglected as a potential key mechanism in meditation/mindfulness practices. Specifically, it proposes that working memory offers a useful model for integrating and understanding the different mental devices that are used in meditation and
