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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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“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).”
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“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.”
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“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 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 › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › 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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