The Influence of a Brief Mindfulness Exercise on Encoding of Novel Words in Female College Students

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 535-544

  Bonamo, Kristin K ^a   Legerski, John Paul ^a   Thomas, Katie B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Long term memory; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929161160     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0285-3     Document Type: Article

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