Concentrative meditation enhances preattentive processing: A mismatch negativity study

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1709-1712

  Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a   Baijal, Shruti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Brain; Event related potentials; Meditation; Mismatch negativity; Preattentive processing; Sudarshan Kriya Yoga

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; BREATHING EXERCISE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDITATION; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREATTENTIVE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDARSHAN KRIYA YOGA; YOGA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOGA;

EID: 35148815722     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f0d2d8     Document Type: Article

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