Self-specific processing in the meditating brain: a MEG neurophenomenology study.

ABSTRACT: Self-specific processes (SSPs) specify the self as an embodied subject and agent, implementing a functional self/nonself distinction in perception, cognition, and action. Despite recent interest, it is still undetermined whether SSPs are all-or-nothing or graded phenomena; whether they can be identified in neuroimaging data; and whether they can be altered through attentional training. These issues are approached through a neurophenomenological exploration of the sense-of-boundaries (SB), the fundamental experience of being an 'I' (self) separated from the 'world' (nonself). The SB experience was explored in collaboration with a uniquely qualified meditation practitioner, who volitionally produced, while being scanned by magnetoencephalogram (MEG), three mental states characterized by a gr

SUBMITTER: Dor-Ziderman Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6210398 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature