Attention, consciousness and mindfulness in meditation

Psychology of Meditation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 147-166

  Raffone, Antonino ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^b   Barendregt, Henk P ^c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences NIAS KNAW   (Netherlands)

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