The question of the self has intrigued philosophers and psychologists for a long time. More
recently, distinct concepts of self have also been suggested in neuroscience. However, the …

Numerous studies have begun to address how the brain's gray and white matter may be
shaped by meditation. This research is yet to be integrated, however, and two fundamental …

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman's notes, he saw it as a" record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however …

Although mind wandering occupies a large proportion of our waking life, its neural basis and
relation to ongoing behavior remain controversial. We report an fMRI study that used …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

Executive functions (EFs; eg, reasoning, working memory, and self-control) can be
improved. Good news indeed, since EFs are critical for school and job success and for …

For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

The frontoparietal control network (FPCN) plays a central role in executive control. It has
been predominantly viewed as a unitary domain general system. Here, we examined …

Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …

The problem of the self has been of increasing interest in recent neuroscience. Brain
imaging studies have raised the question of whether neural activity in cortical midline …