Automatic intuitions and deliberate reasoning, sourcing internal representations of our personal norms and values, contribute to our beliefs of what is right and wrong. We used fMRI to directly compare moral (M) and non-moral (NM) decision-making processes using scenarios requiring conscious deliberation, whereby the main character declared an intention to take a course of action. Furthermore,...
The last two decades have witnessed great progress in mapping neural networks associated with task-induced brain activation. More recently, identification of resting state networks (RSN) paved the way to investigate spontaneous task-unrelated brain activity. The cardinal features characterising RSN are low-frequency fluctuations of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals synchronised...
Objective: Studies suggest that theta activity can be modified by meditation techniques in healthy adults. Aftanas and Golocheikine (2001) report that during meditation, EEG patterns are characterised by increased theta power over anterior midline electrodes of both general theta and frontal midline theta processes (brainwave patterns). We propose a study to see whether meditation can modify...