Relation between contemplative exercises and an enriched psychology students' experience in a neuroscience course.

ABSTRACT: This article examines the relation of contemplative exercises with enhancement of students' experience during neuroscience studies. Short contemplative exercises inspired by the Buddhist tradition of self-inquiry were introduced in an undergraduate neuroscience course for psychology students. At the start of the class, all students were asked to participate in short "personal brain investigations" relevant to the topic presented. These investigations were aimed at bringing stable awareness to a specific perceptual, emotional, attentional, or cognitive process and observing it in a non-judgmental, non-personal way. In addition, students could choose to participate, for bonus credit, in a longer exercise designed to expand upon the weekly class activity. In the exercise, students continued t

SUBMITTER: Levit Binnun N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4235268 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature