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Issues and perspectives in meditation research: in search for a definition 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Bhuvanesh Awasthi
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
  • 출판년도
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Frontiers in Psychology
  • 발행사항
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  • 소개/요약Despite the growing interest in the neurobiological correlates of meditation, most research has omitted to take into account the underlying philosophical aspects of meditation and its wider implications. This, in turn, is reflected in issues surrounding definition, study design, and outcomes. Here, I highlight the often ignored but important aspect of definition in the existing scholarship on neuroscience and meditation practice. For a satisfactory account of a neuroscience of meditation, we must aim to retrieve an operational definition that is inclusive of a traditional ontological description as well as the modern neurocognitive account of the phenomena. Moving beyond examining the effects of meditation practice, to take a potential step forward in the direction to establish how meditation works, it becomes crucial to appraise the philosophical positions that underlie the phenomenology of meditation in the originating traditions.