Meditation

Meditation, Volume 244, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on The effect of meditation on attentional processes, State-trait influences of Vipassana meditation practice on P3 EEG dynamics, What could teachers learn from the neuroscience of self-experience?, Training Attention for Conscious Non-REM Sleep: The Yogic Technique of Yoga Nidrā and Its Implications for Neuroscience Research, CNV and P3 modulations following sensorimotor training, Analytical meditation: a characterization of a reasoning-based meditation training, Buddhist meditation and the regulation of brain networks, Mindfulness-based Emotional Balance Training in Military Spouse, and more.

1. The neuroscience of meditation: Classification, phenomenology, correlates, and mechanisms Tracy Brandmeyer, Arnaud Delorme and Helané Wahbeh 2. Evolution from four mental states to the highest state of consciousness: A neurophysiological basis of meditation as defined in yoga texts Singh Deepeshwar, H.R. Nagendra and Bal Budhi Rana 3. Meditation induces physical relaxation and enhances cognition: A perplexing paradox Kishore K. Deepak 4. Contingent negative variation and P3 modulations following mindful movement training Stefano Lasaponara, Joseph Glicksohn, Federica Mauro and Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan 5. State-trait influences of Vipassana meditation practice on P3 EEG dynamics Ratna Jyothi Kakumanu, Ajay Kumar Nair, Arun Sasidharan, John P. John, Seema Mehrotra, Ravindra Panth and Bindu M. Kutty 6. Short-term mindful breath awareness training improves inhibitory control and response monitoring Joan P. Pozuelos, Bethan R. Mead, Maria Rosario Rueda and Peter Malinowski 7. Fully immersed: State absorption and electrophysiological effects of the OVO Whole-Body Perceptual Deprivation chamber Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Federica Mauro, Stefano Lasaponara, Joseph Glicksohn, Fabio Marson and Aviva Berkovich-Ohana 8. Concentrative (Sahaj Samadhi) meditation training and visual awareness: An fMRI study on color afterimages Amrendra Singh, V. S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, Anupam Ghuleria and Narayanan Srinivasan 9. Toward a brain theory of meditation Antonino Raffone, Laura Marzetti, Cosimo Del Gratta, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Gian Luca Romani and Vittorio Pizzella 10. Tibetan Buddhist monastic debate: Psychological and neuroscientific analysis of a reasoning-based analytical meditation practice Marieke K. van Vugt, Amir Moye, Joshua Pollock, Bryce Johnson, Marcel O. Bonn-Miller, Kalden Gyatso, Jampa Thakchoe, Thokney Adentsang, Ngawang Norbu, Lobsang Tenzin, Thabkhe Lodroe, Jampa Lobsang, Jampa Gyaltsen, Jampa Khechok, Thupten Gyaltsen and David M. Fresco 11. Training attention for conscious non-REM sleep: The yogic practice of yoga-nidrā and its implications for neuroscience research Stephen Parker 12. Nondual awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity Zoran Josipovic 13. The contemplative exercise through the lenses of predictive processing: A promising approach Giuseppe Pagnoni 14. Mindfulness training as cognitive training in high-demand cohorts: An initial study in elite military servicemembers Anthony P. Zanesco, Ekaterina Denkova, Scott L. Rogers, William K. MacNulty and Amishi P. Jha 15. Contemplative neuroscience, self-awareness, and education Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Patricia A. Jennings and Shiri Lavy 16. Yoga: Balancing the excitation-inhibition equilibrium in psychiatric disorders Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta and Bangalore N. Gangadhar