Breath of life: the respiratory vagal stimulation model of contemplative activity

RJS Gerritsen, GPH Band - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Contemplative practices, such as meditation and yoga, are increasingly popular among the
general public and as topics of research. Beneficial effects associated with these practices …

Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

KCR Fox, ML Dixon, S Nijeboer, M Girn… - Neuroscience & …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …

Mindfulness training improves working memory capacity and GRE performance while reducing mind wandering

MD Mrazek, MS Franklin, DT Phillips… - Psychological …, 2013‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide
variety of contexts, training one's ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad …

Critical periods in speech perception: new directions

JF Werker, TK Hensch - Annual review of psychology, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
A continuing debate in language acquisition research is whether there are critical periods
(CPs) in development during which the system is most responsive to environmental input …

Mindfulness at work: Positive affect, hope, and optimism mediate the relationship between dispositional mindfulness, work engagement, and well-being

P Malinowski, HJ Lim - Mindfulness, 2015‏ - Springer
Mindfulness has been described as a state of awareness characterized by refined
attentional skills and a non-evaluative attitude toward internal and external events. Recently …

Mindfulness revisited: A Buddhist-based conceptualization

RE Purser, J Milillo - Journal of Management Inquiry, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Recent scholarship on mindfulness has narrowly focused on attention enhancement,
present-moment awareness, and its stress reduction effects. Moreover, current operational …

Moving beyond mindfulness: defining equanimity as an outcome measure in meditation and contemplative research

G Desbordes, T Gard, EA Hoge, BK Hölzel, C Kerr… - Mindfulness, 2015‏ - Springer
In light of a growing interest in contemplative practices such as meditation, the emerging
field of contemplative science has been challenged to describe and objectively measure …

[HTML][HTML] Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation

P Malinowski - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
The scientific interest in meditation and mindfulness practice has recently seen an
unprecedented surge. After an initial phase of presenting beneficial effects of mindfulness …

Mindfulness: Top–down or bottom–up emotion regulation strategy?

A Chiesa, A Serretti, JC Jakobsen - Clinical psychology review, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The beneficial clinical effects of mindfulness practices are receiving increasing support from
empirical studies. However, the functional neural mechanisms underlying these benefits …

[HTML][HTML] From many to (n) one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

RE Laukkonen, HA Slagter - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying
account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from …