Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners

By Julie A. Brefczynski-Lewis, Antoine Lutz, Hillary S. Schaefer, Daniel B Levinson, Richard J. Davidson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators (2011, background): “Additionally, Brefczynski-Lewis et al. (2007) found a negative correlation between the number of hours of meditation training and right amygdala activation during concentration meditation in a group of experienced meditators while processing negative emotional sounds.”
Effects of Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) on Sport-Specific Dispositional Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Self-Rated Athletic Performance in a Multiple-Sport Population: an RCT Study (2019, background): “…that show changes in brain structure and greater activity and processing in attention-related parts of the brain in experienced meditators (e.g., Brefczynski-Lewis et al. 2007; Cahn and Polich 2009; Lutz et al. 2004; Pagnoni and Cekic 2007) as well as superior performance on cognitive tasks for…”
Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise (2008, background): “Despite the potential social and clinical importance of these affective processes, the possibility that they can be trained in a manner comparable to attentional [1] or”
Central and autonomic nervous system interaction is altered by short-term meditation (2009, background): “01] and the group session interaction was also significant [F (1, 41) 5.”
Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice. (2015, result): “This prediction is in line with findings that expert meditators exhibited less amygdala activity in response to negative emotional stimuli relative to controls [48].”
Investigating the Phenomenological Matrix of Mindfulness-related Practices from a Neurocognitive Perspective (2015, result): “In support of this claim, one study observed an inverted u-shaped curve in CEN activity in expert and novice meditators during FA in which those learning a skill initially had increased activation, yet eventually showed less activation (Brefczynski-Lewis et al., 2007).”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, neutral): “In line with our findings, previous studies of focused/concentrative meditation have reported frontoparietal executive network activity during meditation (Baerentsen et al., 2010; Baron Short et al., 2010; Brefczynski-Lewis et al., 2007; Lazar et al., 2000).”