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Impact Of Short Meditation On Attentional Performance, Lauren E. Guerriero
Impact Of Short Meditation On Attentional Performance, Lauren E. Guerriero
Theses and Dissertations--Biology
Meditation describes a large variety of traditions that all include the conscious focus of attention. By maintaining attention, meditators experience both acute and long-term changes in physiology, anatomy, and cognitive performance. The type of performance benefit is believed to depend, at least in part, on the specific type of mental training. What is much less clear in the literature is the impact of a single session of meditation on the brain and how the acute changes could impact performance. Studies in advanced meditators show an increase in neuronal coordination and slowing of neuronal firing across many regions in the brain, …