Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused attention

NeuroImage

Volumn 81, Issue , 2013, Pages 110-118

  Garrison, Kathleen A ^a   Scheinost, Dustin ^a   Worhunsky, Patrick D ^a   Elwafi, Hani M ^a   Thornhill, Thomas A ^a   Thompson, Evan ^b   Saron, Clifford ^c   Desbordes, Gaëlle ^d   Kober, Hedy ^a   Hampson, Michelle ^a   Gray, Jeremy R ^a,e   Constable, R Todd ^a   Papademetris, Xenophon ^a   Brewer, Judson A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Focused attention; Meditation; Posterior cingulate cortex; Real time fMRI; Real time neurofeedback

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEDITATION; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFEEDBACK;

EID: 84878892446     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.030     Document Type: Article

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