L. Ortega

The Emotional Blink in Novice Meditators

Journal of Vision September 23, 2011 Marcia Grabowecky, L. Ortega, C. Nwosu et al.

Attention and emotion are linked in critical ways. Emotionally salient objects attract and capture attention. Attention to emotional stimuli influences emotion processing and regulation. Meditation techniques have been used for millennia both to train attention and to regulate emotion. A common meditation practice involves sustained attention on the breath. Slagter and colleagues (2007,...