The mindful eye: Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in meditators and non-meditators.
Consciousness and Cognition February 2017 Veena Kumari, Elena Antonova, Bernice Wright et al.
This study examined the effects of cultivated (i.e. developed through training) and dispositional (trait) mindfulness on smooth pursuit (SPEM) and antisaccade (AS) tasks known to engage the fronto-parietal network implicated in attentional and motion detection processes, and the fronto-striatal network implicated in cognitive control, respectively. Sixty healthy men (19-59years), of whom 30...
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.10.008 (opens in new tab)
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Meditation
Antisaccade
Attention
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