Long-term meditation training induced changes in the operational synchrony of default mode network modules during a resting state

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-37

  Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^a   Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^a   Kallio Tamminen, Tarja ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Physics Foundations Society and Society for Natural Philosophy   (Finland)

Author keywords

DMN; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Functional connectivity; Meditation; Mind body practice; Operational modules; Operational synchrony; Self; Self consciousness; Self referential processing; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SELF CONCEPT; VOLUNTEER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REST; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84958752771     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-015-0743-4     Document Type: Article

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