Network-based characterization of brain functional connectivity in Zen practitioners

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Kemmer, Phebe B ^a   Guo, Ying ^a   Wang, Yikai ^a   Pagnoni, Giuseppe ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional connectivity; Meditation; Network analysis; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930934373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00603     Document Type: Article

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