Meditation-related activations are modulated by the practices needed to obtain it and by the expertise: an ALE meta-analysis study
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013 Barbara Tomasino, Sara Fregona, Miran Skrap et al. 151 citations
The brain network governing meditation has been studied using a variety of meditation practices and techniques practices eliciting different cognitive processes (e.g., silence, attention to own body, sense of joy, mantras, etc.). It is very possible that different practices of meditation are subserved by largely, if not entirely, disparate brain networks. This assumption was tested by...