Cognitive processing
August 1, 2017
Pascal L Faber, Frederick Travis, Patricia Milz et al.
Two phases of Transcendental Meditation (TM)-transcending and undirected mentation-were compared to each other and to task-free resting using multichannel EEG recorded from 20 TM practitioners. An EEG microstate analysis identified four classes of microstates which were labeled A, B, C and D, based on their similarity to previously published classes. For each class of microstates, mean...
Cognitive processing
February 1, 2015
Pascal L Faber, Dietrich Lehmann, Lorena R R Gianotti et al.
Meditation is a self-induced and willfully initiated practice that alters the state of consciousness. The meditation practice of Zazen, like many other meditation practices, aims at disregarding intrusive thoughts while controlling body posture. It is an open monitoring meditation characterized by detached moment-to-moment awareness and reduced conceptual thinking and self-reference. Which...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
December 27, 2013
Patricia Milz, Pascal L Faber, D. Lehmann et al.
We investigated brain functional connectivity comparing no-task resting to breath counting (a meditation exercise but given as task without referring to meditation). Functional connectivity computed as EEG coherence between head-surface data suffers from localization ambiguity, reference dependence, and overestimation due to volume conduction. Lagged coherence between intracortical model...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
Pascal L Faber, D. Lehmann, Patricia Milz et al.
IntroductionThe measure of complex dimensionality assesses the number of independent processes that generate an observed time series.ObjectivesTo investigate whether meditation exercises are associated with fewer or more independently active brain processes, and whether different meditation traditions show different results.AimsDoes brain electric complex dimensionality differ between the state...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
Patricia Milz, A. Theodoropoulou, Shisei Tei et al.
IntroductionDifferent meditation practices reportedly affect brain electric activity.ObjectivesTo assess common characteristics in brain electric activity during the state of meditation across different meditation traditions.AimsDo meditation traditions share commonalities in EEG spectral power changes from task-free resting to meditation?MethodsData from 71 experienced meditators of five...