Visual Attention to Suffering After Compassion Training Is Associated With Decreased Amygdala Responses.
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Helen Y. Weng, Regina C Lapate, Diane E Stodola et al.
Compassion meditation training is hypothesized to increase the motivational salience of cues of suffering, while also enhancing equanimous attention and decreasing emotional reactivity to suffering. However, it is currently unknown how compassion meditation impacts visual attention to suffering, and how this impacts neural activation in regions associated with motivational salience as well as...