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Open AccessReduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena
While consciousness is typically considered equivalent to mental contents, certain meditation practices—including open monitoring (OM)—are said to enable a unique conscious state where meditators can experienc...
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Association Between Meditative Capacities and Cognitive Functions in Healthy Older Adults Naïve to Meditation Practice
Aging people experience a slight decrease in their cognitive efficiency, even in the absence of brain pathology. Concurrently, several studies have reported positive effects of meditation practice on older adu...
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Exposure to negative socio-emotional events induces sustained alteration of resting-state brain networks in older adults
Basic emotional functions seem well preserved in older adults. However, their reactivity to and recovery from socially negative events remain poorly characterized. To address this, we designed a ‘task–rest’ pa...
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Open AccessFrom Generative Models to Generative Passages: A Computational Approach to (Neuro) Phenomenology
This paper presents a version of neurophenomenology based on generative modelling techniques developed in computational neuroscience and biology. Our approach can be described as computational phenomenology becau...
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Open AccessEffects of a mindfulness-based versus a health self-management intervention on objective cognitive performance in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD): a secondary analysis of the SCD-Well randomized controlled trial
Older individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) perceive that their cognition has declined but do not show objective impairment on neuropsychological tests. Individuals with SCD are at elevated risk ...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) are increasingly utilized to improve mental health. Interest in the putative effects of MBPs on cognitive function is also growing. This is the first meta-analysis of objectiv...
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Open AccessDynamic functional connectivity patterns associated with dementia risk
This study assesses the relationships between dynamic functional network connectivity (DFNC) and dementia risk.
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Measuring Psychological Mechanisms in Meditation Practice: Using a Phenomenologically Grounded Classification System to Develop Theory-Based Composite Scores
Deepening our understanding of the mechanisms by which meditation practices impact well-being and human flourishing is essential for advancing the science of meditation. A recent phenomenologically grounded cl...
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Co** with Seizures Through Mindfulness Meditation: a Qualitative Study of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Epilepsy
Three previous clinical trials have shown that mindfulness-based interventions reduce depressive symptoms and improve quality of life in epilepsy. We conducted a qualitative study to gain more insight into the...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Impulsivity and its Neurobiological Correlates in Healthy Adults
Interest has grown in using mindfulness meditation to treat conditions featuring excessive impulsivity. However, while prior studies find that mindfulness practice can improve attention, it remains unclear whe...
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Open AccessWhy could meditation practice help promote mental health and well-being in aging?
Psycho-affective states or traits such as stress, depression, anxiety and neuroticism are known to affect sleep, cognition and mental health and well-being in aging populations and to be associated with increa...
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Open AccessCompared to self-immersion, mindful attention reduces salivation and automatic food bias
Immersing ourselves in food images can sometimes make it feel subjectively real, as if the actual food were right in front of us. Excessive self-immersion into mental content, however, is a hallmark of psychol...
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Open AccessReduced age-associated brain changes in expert meditators: a multimodal neuroimaging pilot study
Aging is associated with progressive cerebral volume and glucose metabolism decreases. Conditions such as stress and sleep difficulties exacerbate these changes and are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. Me...
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Topological Network Analysis of Electroencephalographic Power Maps
Meditation practice is a non-pharmacological intervention that provides both physical and mental benefits. It has generated much neuroscientific interest in its effects on brain activity. Spontaneous brain act...
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Open AccessLong-term mindfulness training is associated with reliable differences in resting respiration rate
Respiration rate is known to correlate with aspects of psychological well-being, and attention to respiration is a central component of mindfulness meditation training. Both traditional contemplative systems a...
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Penalized Likelihood Phenoty**: Unifying Voxelwise Analyses and Multi-Voxel Pattern Analyses in Neuroimaging
Neuroimage phenoty** for psychiatric and neurological disorders is performed using voxelwise analyses also known as voxel based analyses or morphometry (VBM). A typical voxelwise analysis treats measurements...
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Introduction—the explanatory gap: To close or to bridge?
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EEG activity related to preparation and suppression of eye movements in three-dimensional space
Eight normal subjects made visually guided eye movements to four LED targets placed at two different distances (20 and 70 cm) and on either side (±10°) at 70 cm. Four types of eye movements were elicited: pure...
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Toward a neurophenomenology as an account of generative passages: a first empirical case study
This paper analyzes an explicit instantiation of the program of “neurophenomenology” in a neuroscientific protocol. Neurophenomenology takes seriously the importance of linking the scientific study of consciou...
