Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 750-760

  Hasenkamp, Wendy ^a,b   Wilson Mendenhall, Christine D ^a   Duncan, Erica ^b,c   Barsalou, Lawrence W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Default mode; fMRI; Meditation; Mind wandering; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BREATHING MECHANICS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MIND WANDERING; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 80054108429     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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