A week-long meditation retreat decouples behavioral measures of the alerting and executive attention networks

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Elliott, James C ^a   Alan Wallace, B ^b   Giesbrecht, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attention network test; Executive attention; Meditation; Orienting; Shamatha meditation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTION NETWORK TEST; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEDITATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORIENTATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY;

EID: 84894106850     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00069     Document Type: Article

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