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Dissociating meditation proficiency and experience dependent EEG changes during traditional Vipassana meditation practice
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Kakumanu, Ratna Jyothi,Nair, Ajay Kumar,Venugopal, Rahul,Sasidharan, Arun,Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar,John, John P.,Mehrotra, Seema,Panth, Ravindra,Kutty, Bindu M.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
- 출판년도2018
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Biological psychology
- 발행사항Vol.135No.-[2018]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN
- 소개/요약Meditation, as taught by most schools of practice, consists of a set of heterogeneous techniques. We wanted to assess if EEG profiles varied across different meditation techniques, proficiency levels and experience of the practitioners. We examined EEG dynamics in Vipassana meditators (Novice, Senior meditators and Teachers) while they engaged in their traditional meditation practice (concentration, mindfulness and loving kindness in a structured manner) as taught by S.N. Goenka. Seniors and Teachers (vs Novices) showed trait increases in delta (1–4 Hz), theta-alpha (6–10 Hz) and low-gamma power (30–40 Hz) at baseline rest; state-trait increases in low-alpha (8–10 Hz) and low-gamma power during concentrative and mindfulness meditation; and theta-alpha and low-gamma power during loving-kindness meditation. Permutation entropy and Higuchi fractal dimension measures further dissociated high proficiency from duration of experience as only Teachers showed consistent increase in network complexity from baseline rest and state transitions between the different meditation states.
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