Effortless awareness: Using real time neurofeedback to investigate correlates of posterior cingulate cortex activity in meditators' self-report

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Garrison, Kathleen A ^a   Santoyo, Juan F ^b   Davis, Jake H ^b,c   Thornhill IV, Thomas A ^a   Kerr, Catherine E ^d   Brewer, Judson A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Introspection; Meditation; Neurophenomenology; Posterior cingulate cortex; Real time fMRI; Self referential processing; Self report

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUNDED THEORY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTROSPECTION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDITATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROFEEDBACK; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933678511     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00440     Document Type: Article

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