Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation—
practiced widely for the reduction of stress and promotion of health—exerts beneficial effects …

Meditation trains the mind to focus attention towards an object or experience. Among
different meditation techniques, focused attention meditation is considered foundational for …

This chapter begins with a brief review of descriptions and definitions of mystical-type
experiences and the historical connection between classic hallucinogens and mystical …

Through the practice of Mindfulness Meditation (MM), meditators become familiar with the
observation of ongoing spontaneous thoughts, while maintaining an attitude of openness …

In light of a growing interest in contemplative practices such as meditation, the emerging
field of contemplative science has been challenged to describe and objectively measure …

Models of attention often distinguish among attention subtypes, with classic models
separating orienting, switching, and sustaining functions. Compared with other forms of …

Neurofeedback relying on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI-nf) heralds new
prospects for self-regulating brain and behavior. Here we provide the first comprehensive …

Meditation has been associated with relatively reduced activity in the default mode network,
a brain network implicated in self-related thinking and mind wandering. However, previous …

We review neuroimaging research investigating self-referential processing (SRP), that is,
how we respond to stimuli that reference ourselves, prefaced by a lexical-thematic analysis …

In the past decade, neuroimaging research has begun to identify key brain regions involved
in self-referential processing, most consistently midline structures such as the posterior …