Do meditators have higher awareness of their intentions to act?

Cortex

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-158

  Jo, Han Gue ^a,b   Hinterberger, Thilo ^c   Wittmann, Marc ^d   Schmidt, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intention; Libet experiment; Meditation; Readiness potential; Volition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; VOLITION;

EID: 84923015159     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.015     Document Type: Article

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