Our mental experience can be described as a stream of activities that includes perceptions,
memories, feelings, intentions, images, beliefs, and desires. Several of these activities may …

Empirical studies have examined the construct of mindfulness for almost 40 years, and a
conceptual definition of mindfulness has been continuously revised and clarified over this …

The concept of attention as central to human performance extends back to the start of
experimental psychology (James 1890), yet even a few years ago, it would not have been …

Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until
recently it was largely neglected in philosophy. Now, however, attention has been …

Core to many clinical and spiritual practices ranging from stress reduction to self-
actualization to self-transcendence is the ability to pay attention in a nondistracted manner …

This chapter emphasizes the many methods currently being employed to study brain
networks related to attention. We seek to set current studies into a historical background of …

Mindfulness is defined as paying attention in the present moment. We investigate the
hypothesis that mindfulness training may alter or enhance specific aspects of attention. We …

The first part of this paper describes the long history of the concept of Mindfulness. Contrary
to the belief that Mindfulness only has Buddhist and Hindu origins, it is also rooted in Jewish …

This chapter reviews brain regions involved in attention to allow incorporation of the
behavioral findings into a neuropsychological/neuroanatomical context. Cognitive …

A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that
consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. In this book, Carlos Montemayor and …