Why Is It So Hard to Pay Attention, or Is It? Mindfulness, the Factors of Awakening and Reward-Based Learning

Mindfulness

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-80

  Brewer, Judson A ^a   Davis, Jake H ^b   Goldstein, Joseph ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Insight Meditation Society   (United States)

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EID: 84876520152     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-012-0164-8     Document Type: Article

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