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Neural correlates of focused attention during a brief mindfulness induction 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Dickenson, J.,Berkman, E. T.,Arch, J.,Lieberman, M. D.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • 출판년도2013
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
  • 발행사항Vol.8No.1[2013]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1749-5016
  • 소개/요약Mindfulness meditation-the practice of attending to present moment experience and allowing emotions and thoughts to pass without judgment-has shown to be beneficial in clinical populations across diverse outcomes. However, the basic neural mechanisms by which mindfulness operates and relates to everyday outcomes in novices remain unexplored. Focused attention is a common mindfulness induction where practitioners focus on specific physical sensations, typically the breath. The present study explores the neural mechanisms of this common mindfulness induction among novice practitioners. Healthy novice participants completed a brief task with both mindful attention [focused breathing (FB)] and control (unfocused attention) conditions during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Relative to the control condition, FB recruited an attention network including parietal and prefrontal structures and trait-level mindfulness during this comparison also correlated with parietal activation. Results suggest that the neural mechanisms of a brief mindfulness induction are related to attention processes in novices and that trait mindfulness positively moderates this activation.