Plasticity of visual attention in Isha yoga meditation practitioners before and after a 3-month retreat.
Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Claire Braboszcz, B Rael Cahn, Bhavani Balakrishnan et al.
Meditation has lately received considerable interest from cognitive neuroscience. Studies suggest that daily meditation leads to long lasting attentional and neuronal plasticity. We present changes related to the attentional systems before and after a 3 month intensive meditation retreat. We used three behavioral psychophysical tests - a Stroop task, an attentional blink task, and a...