Attention and Default Mode Network Assessments of Meditation Experience during Active Cognition and Rest.
Brain Sciences April 29, 2021 Kathryn J Devaney, Emily J Levin, Vaibhav Tripathi et al.
Meditation experience has previously been shown to improve performance on behavioral assessments of attention, but the neural bases of this improvement are unknown. Two prominent, strongly competing networks exist in the human cortex: a dorsal attention network, that is activated during focused attention, and a default mode network, that is suppressed during attentionally demanding tasks. Prior...