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Cognition and Emotion in Meditation – Part 2

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In this study, Mica Allen and co-workers investigated how meditation changes cognitive and emotional processes, by looking at the involved brain areas. In the previous post I discussed evidence for the involvement of emotional processes even when performing a purely cognitive task. This study went a bit further by actually challenging emotional states while participants engaged in a task that was similar to the Stroop task that was a focus in a previous post, is carried out. The task used... Read more
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Cognition and Emotion in Meditation

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Research has convincingly shown the positive effects of mindfulness meditation practice on attentional mechanisms. I discussed some of these findings in previous blogs, for instance the evidence that mindfulness practice is linked to improved attentional control, which is also evidenced by neural markers that show improved selective attention as well as improved conflict resolution mechanisms. While the refinement of attention skills certainly is a central aspect of many forms of meditation training, mindfulness practice should also lead to changes in... Read more
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Mindfulness and Cognitive Control

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An important ability in life is the ability to act automatically. Once we have learned how to ride a bycicle it will work without much – if any – conscious effort or control being required. This is certainly a good thing. However, sometimes we function on autopilot when it might be less useful or we may respond in an automated fashion, without being quite aware that we are responding, not to mention how exactly we are responding. This is not... Read more

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