Enhanced Attentional Network by Short-Term Intensive Meditation.

ABSTRACT: While recent studies have suggested behavioral effects of short-term meditation on the executive attentional functions, functional changes in the neural correlates of attentional networks after short-term meditation have been unspecified. Here, we conducted a randomized control trial to investigate the effects of a 4-day intensive meditation on the neural correlates of three attentional functions: alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Twenty-three participants in meditation practice and 14 participants in a relaxation retreat group performed attention network test (ANT) during functional magnetic resonance imaging both before and immediately after intervention. The meditation group showed significantly improved behavioral performance in the executive control network in ANT after th

SUBMITTER: Kwak S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7019009 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature