Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity

By Judson A. Brewer, P. Worhunsky, Jeremy R. Gray, Yi-Yuan Tang, Jochen Weber, Hedy Kober. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering (2014, background): “…performance correlate positively with activation in areas associated with the default mode network (Jung et al., 2010), which is associated positively with mind-wandering (Christoff et al., 2009; Mason et al., 2007; Schooler et al., 2011) and negatively with mindfulness (Brewer et al., 2011).”
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The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease. (2014, background): “Increased functional connectivity between the ventral PCC and the FPCN has also been shown in the pattern of brain activity in expert meditators, which might be viewed as another example of a focused internal state (Brewer et al., 2011).”
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The Difficulty of Defining Mindfulness: Current Thought and Critical Issues (2013, background): “An increasing number of studies have recently shown that meditators engaged in both concentration and mindfulness meditation practices showed reduced activation of the DMN while meditating (e.g. Brewer et al. 2011; Hasenkamp et al. 2012; Pagnoni et al. 2008).”
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