ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
Contrasting Electroencephalography-Derived Entropy and Neural Oscillations With Highly Skilled Meditators.
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- The Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Practices: A Systematic Review of Neurotheological Evidence.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
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- Meditation styles are highly discriminable from EEG at the subject level with limited generalization across the population: a machine-learning study.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2026Article
- From Scalp to Brain: Analyzing the Spatial Complexity of the Shooter's Brain.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of Neurocognitive Outcomes and Applications for Mental Health and Well-Being.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Impact of heartfulness meditation on psychophysiological parameters among medical students.Bioinformation · 2025Article
- Meditation and complexity: a review and synthesis of evidence.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Review
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of focused attention meditation: A scoping systematic review.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
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- Inducing a meditative state by artificial perturbations: A mechanistic understanding of brain dynamics underlying meditation.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Nonlinear EEG signatures of mind wandering during breath focus meditation.Current research in neurobiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Meditation is an umbrella term for a number of mental training practices designed to improve the monitoring and regulation of attention and emotion. Some forms of meditation are now being used for clinical intervention. To accompany the increased clinical interest in meditation, research investigating the neural basis of these practices is needed. A central hypothesis of contemplative neuroscience is that meditative states, which are unique on a phenomenological level, differ on a neurophysiological level. To identify the electrophysiological correlates of meditation practice, the electrical brain activity of highly skilled meditators engaging in one of six meditation styles (shamatha, vipassana, zazen, dzogchen, tonglen, and visualization) was recorded. A mind-wandering task served as a control. Lempel-Ziv complexity showed differences in nonlinear brain dynamics (entropy) during meditation compared with mind wandering, suggesting that meditation, regardless of practice, affects neural complexity. In contrast, there were no differences in power spectra at six different frequency bands, likely due to the fact that participants engaged in different meditation practices. Finally, exploratory analyses suggest neurological differences among meditation practices. These findings highlight the importance of studying the electroencephalography (EEG) correlates of different meditative practices.
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