A week-long meditation retreat decouples behavioral measures of the alerting and executive attention networks

C. Elliott, J.; Alan Wallace, B.; Giesbrecht, Barry

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00069

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A week-long meditation retreat decouples behavioral measures of the alerting and executive attention networks

Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience • Jan 1, 2014

Authors:

J. C. Elliott

B. Alan Wallace

Barry Giesbrecht

Abstract

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...

Subject

Psychology

Meditation

Stimulus onset asynchrony

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