Short-term meditation modulates brain activity of insight evoked with solution cue

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-49

  Ding, Xiaoqian ^a   Tang, Yi Yuan ^b,c   Cao, Chen ^a   Deng, Yuqin ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Xin, Xiu ^a   Posner, Michael I ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insight; Integrative body mind training; Short term meditation

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973429748     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu032     Document Type: Article

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