The effect of mindfulness meditation on time perception

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 846-852

  Kramer, Robin S S ^a   Weger, Ulrich W ^b   Sharma, Dinkar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Meditation; Mindfulness; Temporal bisection; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIO RECORDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879454802     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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