Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present.

ABSTRACT: Mindful attention is characterized by acknowledging the present experience as a transient mental event. Early stages of mindfulness practice may require greater neural effort for later efficiency. Early effort may self-regulate behavior and focalize the present, but this understanding lacks a computational explanation. Here we used network control theory as a model of how external control inputs-operationalizing effort-distribute changes in neural activity evoked during mindful attention across the white matter network. We hypothesized that individuals with greater network controllability, thereby efficiently distributing control inputs, effectively self-regulate behavior. We further hypothesized that brain regions that utilize greater control input exhibit shorter intrinsic timescales of

SUBMITTER: Zhou D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926276 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature