Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators [PDF]
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2016 A recent meta-analysis emphasises that meditation can improve attention in healthy adults (Sedlmeier et al., 2012). The findings of a study by Cahn and Polich (2009) suggests that there is an effect of a meditative state on three event-related potential (ERP) brain markers of low-level auditory attention in expert meditators: the N1, the P2, and the ...
Britta Biedermann +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 So far, the large and expanding body of research on meditation has mostly focussed on the putative benefits of meditation on health and well-being. However, a growing number of reports indicate that psychologically unpleasant experiences can occur in the
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Struggling over procedures and other interventions: a comment on David Graeber’s “Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class" [PDF]
, 2014 Special section meditation on David Graeber's Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial ...
Cowan, Jane K
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Future directions in meditation research: Recommendations for expanding the field of contemplative science. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, neural and other physiological correlates of meditation, and individual ...
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Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body [PDF]
, 2011 Using ethnographic methods I examine the process of learning vipassana meditation, a form of meditation in which the practitioner focuses on their bodily sensations, and the ways in which learning this form of meditation affects the practitioner\u27s ...
Geffre, Craig
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Defining Meditation: Foundations for an Activity-Based Phenomenological Classification System
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Classifying different meditation techniques is essential for the progress of meditation research, as this will enable discerning which effects are associated with which techniques, in addition to supporting the development of increasingly effective and ...
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Meditation Experiences, Self, and Boundaries of Consciousness [PDF]
, 2016 Our experiences with the external world are possible mainly through vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell providing us a sense of reality.
Barnes, Vernon A. +3 more
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NeuroImageAttention regulation is a core mechanism of mindfulness meditation and has been proposed to underlie many of its health-related benefits. Here, we review and synthesize behavioral findings on attentional outcomes in long-term meditators, integrating ...
Sebastian Ehmann +4 more
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Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation [PDF]
, 2011 The subjective experience of one’s environment is constructed by interactions among sensory, cognitive, and affective processes. For centuries, meditation has been thought to influence such processes by enabling a nonevaluative representation of sensory ...
Coghill, Robert +5 more
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Mindfulness interventions reduce blood pressure in patients with non-communicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are an emerging area of empirical study, not only in positive psychology, but also in clinical health care.
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