Event-related delta, theta, alpha and gamma correlates to auditory oddball processing during vipassana meditation

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-111

  Cahn, B Rael ^a,b,c   Delorme, Arnaud ^c,d,e   Polich, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Meditation Research Institute   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha; EEG; Gamma; Meditation; Phase synchrony; Spectral power; Theta; Vipassana; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872392851     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss060     Document Type: Article

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