Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Kirk, Ulrich ^a   Montague, P Read ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical; Conditioning; fMRI BOLD; Interoceptive awareness; Mindfulness; Reward processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926484324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00090     Document Type: Article

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