The impact of a brief mindfulness meditation intervention on cognitive control and error-related performance monitoring

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Larson, Michael J ^a   Steffen, Patrick R ^a   Primosch, Mark ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Error negativity; Error positivity; Error related negativity; Event related potential; Meditation; Mindfulness; Post error positivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIEF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ERROR POSITIVITY; ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 84933679629     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00308     Document Type: Article

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