Meditation training increases brain efficiency in an attention task

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 745-749

  Kozasa, Elisa H ^a,b   Sato, João R ^c,d   Lacerda, Shirley S ^a   Barreiros, Maria A M ^a   Radvany, João ^a   Russell, Tamara A ^e   Sanches, Liana G ^a   Mello, Luiz E A M ^b   Amaro, Edson ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Meditation; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; LENTIFORM NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STROOP TEST; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054121139     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.088     Document Type: Article

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