Brief body-scan meditation practice improves somatosensory perceptual decision making

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 348-359

  Mirams, Laura ^a   Poliakoff, Ellen ^a   Brown, Richard J ^a   Lloyd, Donna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Interoception; Medically unexplained symptoms; Meditation; Signal detection analysis; Somatic perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TOUCH; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 84873725778     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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