Distinct Neural Activity Associated with Focused-Attention Meditation and Loving-Kindness Meditation
PLoS One August 15, 2012 Tatia M C Lee, Mei-Kei Leung, Wai-Kai Hou et al. 163 citations
This study examined the dissociable neural effects of ānāpānasati (focused-attention meditation, FAM) and mettā (loving-kindness meditation, LKM) on BOLD signals during cognitive (continuous performance test, CPT) and affective (emotion-processing task, EPT, in which participants viewed affective pictures) processing. Twenty-two male Chinese expert meditators (11 FAM experts, 11 LKM experts)...