Mental training enhances attentional stability: Neural and behavioral evidence

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 13418-13427

  Lutz, Antoine ^a   Slagter, Heleen A ^a,c   Rawlings, Nancy B ^b   Francis, Andrew D ^a   Greischar, Lawrence L ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350344677     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1614-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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