Control over experience? Magnitude of the attentional blink depends on meditative state

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-39

  Van Vugt, Marieke K ^a   Slagter, Heleen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Meditation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOCUSED ATTENTION MEDITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN MONITORING MEDITATION; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; SELF REPORT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTIONAL BLINK; MEDITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BUDDHISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890028688     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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