An investigation of brain processes supporting meditation

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-84

  Bærentsen, Klaus B ^a,b   Stødkilde Jørgensen, Hans ^b   Sommerlund, Bo ^a   Hartmann, Tue ^b   Damsgaard Madsen, Johannes ^a   Fosnæs, Mark ^a   Green, Anders C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDITATION; MOTOR CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEGOTIATING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950360723     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-009-0342-3     Document Type: Article

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