Zen meditation and access to information in the unconscious

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1476-1481

  Strick, Madelijn ^a   van Noorden, Tirza H J ^a   Ritskes, Rients R ^c   de Ruiter, Jan R ^b   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Remote Associates Test; Subliminal priming; Unconscious; Zen meditation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REMOTE ASSOCIATE TEST; SUBLIMINAL PRIMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORD LIST RECALL; ZEN MEDITATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84865371074     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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