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Naoki Masuda

2 papers in the library · 29 citations · publishing 2020-2024

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Associations of conservatism and jumping to conclusions biases with aberrant salience and default mode network

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences February 27, 2024 J. Miyata, A. Sasamoto, T. Ezaki et al.

While conservatism bias refers to the human need for more evidence for decision‐making than rational thinking expects, the jumping to conclusions (JTC) bias refers to the need for less evidence among individuals with schizophrenia/delusion compared to healthy people. Although the hippocampus‐midbrain‐striatal aberrant salience system and the salience, default mode (DMN), and frontoparietal...

Focused attention meditation changes the boundary and configuration of functional networks in the brain

Scientific Reports 2020 Shogo Kajimura, Naoki Masuda, Johnny King L. Lau et al. 29 citations

Research has shown that focused attention meditation not only improves our cognitive and motivational functioning (e.g., attention, mental health), it influences the way our brain networks [e.g., default mode network (DMN), fronto-parietal network (FPN), and sensory-motor network (SMN)] function and operate. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility that meditation...