Meditation Styles Are Highly Discriminable from EEG at the Subject Level With Limited Generalization Across the Population: A Machine-Learning Study
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) May 19, 2026 Saqib Hayat, Francesco Goretti, Rachele Fabbri et al. preprint
ABSTRACT Meditation has been associated with improvements in attention, emotional regulation, and mental well-being, motivating increasing interest in objective methods for assessing meditative states. In this study, we investigate whether EEG-based machine learning can reliably distinguish between multiple meditation styles and mind-wandering states. EEG data were recorded from experienced...