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Medial orbital gyrus modulation during spatial perspective changes: Pre- vs. post-8weeks mindfulness meditation 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Tomasino, B.,Campanella, F.,Fabbro, F.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2016
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Consciousness and cognition
  • 발행사항Vol.40No.-[2016]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1053-8100
  • 소개/요약Mindfulness meditation exercises the ability to shift to an “observer perspective”. That means learning to observe internally and externally arising stimulations in a detached perspective. Both before and after attending a 8-weeks mindfulness training (MT) participants underwent an fMRI experiment (serving as their own internal control) and solved a own-body mental transformation task, which is used to investigate embodiment and perspective taking (and an non-bodily mental transformation task as control). We found a stimulus × time-points interaction: the own-body mental transformation task (vs. non-bodily) in the post (vs. pre-MT) significantly increased activations in the medial orbital gyrus. The signal change in the right medial orbital gyrus significantly correlated with changes in a self-maturity personality scale. A brief MT caused increased activation in areas involved in self related processing and person perspective changes, together with an increase in self-maturity, consistently with the aim of mindfulness meditation that is exercising change in self perspective.