"Off with the old": Mindfulness practice improves backward inhibition

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Greenberg, Jonathan ^a   Reiner, Keren ^a   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Backward inhibition; Competitor rule suppression; Mental set; Mindfulness; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874679589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00618     Document Type: Article

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