The exploration of meditation in the neuroscience of attention and consciousness
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Many recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies have revealed the importance of investigating meditation states and traits to achieve an increased understanding of cognitive and affective neuroplasticity, attention and self-awareness, as well as for their increasingly recognized clinical relevance. The investigation of states and traits related to meditation has especially pronounced implications for the neuroscience of attention, consciousness, self-awareness, empathy and theory of mind. In this article we present the main features of meditation-based mental training and characterize the current scientific approach to meditation states and traits with special reference to attention and consciousness, in light of the articles contributed to this issue.
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Mindfulness and other meditations improve internal awareness, and this developed capacity leads to increased clarity of mental processes and improvements in meta-awareness.
“Another important constituent that has emerged in the literature is that mindfulness and other meditations improve internal awareness and that developed capacity has led to increased clarity of mental processes leading to improvements in meta-awareness (Cahn and Polich, 2006; MacLean et al., 2010; Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010; Schmalzl et al., 2015).”
From Mindfulness, Interoception, and the Body: A Contemporary Perspective (2019) · cites this paper as Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010
The Introduction (page not available) describes mindfulness-based meditation as monitoring experience to become reflectively aware of emotional and cognitive patterns. The Open monitoring meditation and Neuroscience of meditation and consciousness sections (pages not available) connect introspection with metacognition and discuss awareness of one's mental processes. They do not establish the claimed causal progression from improved internal awareness to increased clarity and improved meta-awareness across meditation practices. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredBoth focused breathing meditation and body scan meditation are considered FA meditation, but they seem to produce different effects.
“Even though both meditations are considered to be a FA meditation (Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010; Fissler et al., 2016), both seem to produce different effects.”
From Mindfulness, Interoception, and the Body: A Contemporary Perspective (2019) · cites this paper as Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010
The Introduction defines focused-attention meditation as sustained attention on an object, and Neuroscience of meditation and consciousness explicitly describes focusing on breathing-related sensations as FA meditation. Our copy does not identify body scan meditation as FA, so it does not establish the classification of both practices. The citation is attached to that classification, not to the citing authors’ statement that the practices produce different effects. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredOne model identifies two basic meditative categories: focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM).
“One model identifies two basic meditative categories: focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM; Lutz et al., 2008; Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010).”
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Focused attention meditations help regulate attention, including enhanced ability to detect and disengage from distraction and refocus attention.
“Focused attention meditations have shown to help regulate attention that includes the enhanced ability to detect and disengage from a distraction and refocus attention (Lutz et al., 2008; Raffone and Srinivasan, 2010; Schmalzl et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- Raffone, A., & Srinivasan, N.
- Affiliations
- RIKEN Center for Brain Science (JP)
- University of Allahabad (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Raffone, Antonino
- Venue
- Cognitive Processing
- Published
- 2009-12-30
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-7
- ISSN
- 1612-4782 (ISSN-L)
- 1612-4790
- OpenAlex
- W2129433190
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 7.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Cognitive Processing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- meditation, attention, consciousness, self-awareness, neuroplasticity, mental training, empathy, theory of mind
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Consciousness, Humans, Neurosciences, Meditation
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