Mindfulness and the cognitive neuroscience of attention and awareness

Zygon

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 627-646

  Raffone, Antonino ^a,b   Tagini, Angela ^c   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Meditation; Metacognition; Mindfulness; Neuroimaging; Prefrontal cortex; Self awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955362162     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01118.x     Document Type: Article

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