Philosophy Meets Neuroscience: Unveiling the Most Effective Meditation Technique for Cognitive Growth and Stress Resilience
Siwani Agrawal, Tapeshwari Bharti
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium May 2, 2025 DOI: 10.1109/sieds65500.2025.11021153 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Aims to identify the most effective meditation technique for enhancing cognitive functioning and stress resilience as a non-clinical intervention, combining philosophical comparative analysis of foundational meditative doctrines with empirical psychological and neuroscientific evaluation. No specific techniques, results, or efficacy comparisons are reported in the abstract. |
Abstract
This study identifies the most effective meditation technique as a non-clinical intervention for enhancing cognitive functioning and stress resilience, through a philosophical comparative analysis of foundational doctrines across diverse meditative practices, complemented by empirical evaluation using psychological and neuroscientific measures to quantitatively assess and compare their overall efficacy.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cites 5
- What is neurorepresentationalism? From neural activity and predictive processing to multi-level representations and consciousness. Behavioural Brain Research June 1, 2022
- Mantra meditation for mental health in the general population: A systematic review European Journal of Integrative Medicine October 1, 2018
- Effect of meditation on stress-induced changes in cognitive functions. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine March 2011
- Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences April 1, 2008
- An outpatient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: theoretical considerations and preliminary results. General Hospital Psychiatry April 1, 1982