A Weeklong Meditation Retreat Decouples Behavioral Measures of the Alerting and Executive Attention Networks.

Previous studies have examined the influence of meditation on three functionally different components of attention: executive control, alerting, and orienting. These studies have consistently found that meditation training improves both executive attention and alerting, but there has not been a cons...

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Main Authors: James C Elliott, B. Alan Wallace, Barry eGiesbrecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00069/full