Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences June 28, 2007 Julie A. Brefczynski-Lewis, Antoine Lutz, Hillary S. Schaefer et al. 988 citations
Meditation refers to a family of mental training practices that are designed to familiarize the practitioner with specific types of mental processes. One of the most basic forms of meditation is concentration meditation, in which sustained attention is focused on an object such as a small visual stimulus or the breath. In age-matched participants, using functional MRI, we found that activation...