Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation

Manna, Antonietta; Raffone, Antonino; Perrucci, Mauro Gianni; Nardo, Davide; Ferretti, Andrea; Tartaro, Armando; Londei, Alessandro; Gratta, Cosimo Del; Belardinelli, Marta Olivetti; Romani, Gian Luca

doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.03.001

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“…An fMRI study contrasted FA and OM meditation forms in expert meditators versus novices (Manna et al, 2010) and concluded that experienced meditators control cognitive engagement in conscious processing of sensory-related, thought and emotion contents by massive self regulation in fronto-parietal and insular areas in the left hemisphere in a meditative state when compared with rest. They also concluded based on their findings that the anterior cingulate and dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex seem to play antagonist roles in the executive control of the attention setting during meditation task.…”

Section: Mindfulness Versus Dissociationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders

Staniloiu¹,

Vitcu²,

Markowitsch³

2012

Advances in Brain Imaging

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Section: Mindfulness Versus Dissociationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders

Staniloiu¹,

Vitcu²,

Markowitsch³

2012

Advances in Brain Imaging

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“…This dissociation between the neural correlates of dreaming and hypnosis is reflective of the fact that the former state is spontaneous and involuntarily elicited, whereas the latter state is deliberate and directed in nature. Meditative states, on the other hand, involve the interplay between spontaneous and deliberate components as both operations are integral to the process of meditation, and are differentially called upon depending on the type of meditative technique being applied (Brewer et al, 2011;Hasenkamp, WilsonMendenhall, Duncan, and Barsalou, 2012;Lutz, Slagter, Dunne, and Davidson, 2008;Manna et al, 2010;Tang, Hölzel, and Posner, 2015).…”

Section: Altered States Of Imaginationmentioning

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The imaginative mind

Abraham

2016

Human Brain Mapping

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The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day‐to‐day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this imbalance by drawing together the multitudinous facets of imagination within a common framework. The processes fall into one of five categories depending on whether they are characterized as involving perceptual/motor related mental imagery, intentionality or recollective processing, novel combinatorial or generative processing, exceptional phenomenology in the aesthetic response, or altered psychological states which range from commonplace to dysfunctional. These proposed categories are defined on the basis of theoretical ideas from philosophy as well as empirical evidence from neuroscience. By synthesizing the findings across these domains of imagination, this novel five‐part or quinquepartite classification of the human imagination aids in systematizing, and thereby abets, our understanding of the workings and neural foundations of the human imagination. It would serve as a blueprint to direct further advances in the field of imagination while also promoting crosstalk with reference to stimulus‐oriented facets of information processing. A biologically and ecologically valid psychology is one that seeks to explain fundamental aspects of human nature. Given the ubiquitous nature of the imaginative operations in our daily lives, there can be little doubt that these quintessential aspects of the mind should be central to the discussion. Hum Brain Mapp 37:4197–4211, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…That is, attention is receptive to the whole field of experience and awareness and remains in an open state. These two styles involve different attentional, cognitive monitoring and awareness processes and both are linked with brain systems involved in conflict monitoring, selective and sustained attention (Manna et al 2010) Kabat-Zinn (2005:268) compares meditation to "scaffolding" used to develop the state, or skill, of mindfulness. Numerous writings suggest that the mindfulness state enhances the two disparate forms of attention aforementioned (FA and OM).…”

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“…Golocheikine, 2001;Lutz et al 2004;Lazar, Kerr, Wasserman, Gray, Greve, Treadway, McGarvey, Quinn, Dusek, Benson, Rauch, Moore & Fischl, 2005;Pagnoni & Cekic, 2007;Lutz et al 2008a;Baijal & Gupta, 2008;Baerentsen, Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Sommerlund, Hartmann, Damsgaard-Madsen, Fosnaes, & Green, 2009;Cahn, Delorme & Polich 20010;Manna et al, 2010;Brefczynski-Lewis et al 2010;Chiesa & Serretti, 2010apud Cherevaty, 2011.…”

Section: Brief Review Of Empirical Research In Mindfulness Attentionmentioning

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Mindfulness training for interpreting students

Ivars

Calatayud

2013

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In this work we present the results of a study aimed at increasing performance quality in conference interpreting trainees through the development of the attention-regulatory practice of mindfulness. A review of the basic concepts of attention is presented as well as a review of the role of attention in interpreting as an extremely cognitive demanding task. The authors also introduce and review the concept of mindfulness from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Stress in interpreting is also addressed as a factor that may influence performance. An experimental study is presented in which focused attention practices are compared to relaxation practices in relation to performance in interpreting trainees.

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Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation

Cited by 229 publications

References 35 publications

Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders

Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders

The imaginative mind

Mindfulness training for interpreting students

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