Journal article
Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity.
- Abstract:
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Many philosophical and contemplative traditions teach that "living in the moment" increases happiness. However, the default mode of humans appears to be that of mind-wandering, which correlates with unhappiness, and with activation in a network of brain areas associated with self-referential processing. We investigated brain activity in experienced meditators and matched meditation-naive controls as they performed several different meditations (Concentration, Loving-Kindness, Choiceless Aware...
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- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Volume:
- 108
- Issue:
- 50
- Pages:
- 20254-20259
- Publication date:
- 2011-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
- Source identifiers:
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357642
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:357642
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- Local pid:
- pubs:357642
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2011
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