Source-space EEG neurofeedback links subjective experience with brain activity during effortless awareness meditation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Meditation is increasingly showing beneficial effects for psychiatric disorders. However, learning to meditate is not straightforward as there are no easily discernible outward signs of performance and thus no direct feedback is possible. As meditation has been found to correlate with posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activity, we tested whether source-space EEG neurofeedback from the PCC followed the subjective experience of effortless awareness (a major component of meditation), and whether participants could volitionally control the signal.

Methods

Sixteen novice meditators and sixteen experienced meditators participated in the study. Novice meditators were briefly trained to perform a basic meditation practice to induce the subjective experience of effortless a

SUBMITTER: van Lutterveld R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5001938 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature