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Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

Antoine Lutz, Heleen A. Slagter, Nancy B. Rawlings, Andrew D. Francis, Lawrence L. Greischar and Richard J. Davidson
Journal of Neuroscience 21 October 2009, 29 (42) 13418-13427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1614-09.2009
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1614-09.2009
PubMed 
19846729
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History 
  • Received April 3, 2009
  • Revision received August 23, 2009
  • Accepted September 11, 2009
  • First published October 21, 2009.
  • Version of record published October 21, 2009.
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Author Information

  1. Antoine Lutz1,
  2. Heleen A. Slagter1,3,
  3. Nancy B. Rawlings2,
  4. Andrew D. Francis1,
  5. Lawrence L. Greischar1, and
  6. Richard J. Davidson1
  1. 1Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705,
  2. 2University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom, and
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Antoine Lutz, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705. alutz{at}wisc.edu
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    • Received April 3, 2009.
    • Revision received August 23, 2009.
    • Accepted September 11, 2009.
  • This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R.J.D.) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (R.J.D., A.L.) and gifts from Bryant Wangard and Ralph Robinson, Keith and Arlene Bronstein, and the John W. Kluge Foundation (R.J.D.). We thank the Barre Insight Meditation Society and P. Babe, S. Harkness, and Z. Moran for assistance in data collection and Matthieu Ricard, James Austin, and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on a previous version of this manuscript. We thank J. Davis for teaching the novices meditation. We also thank the Mind and Life Institute for helping to facilitate this work. A.L., H.A.S., and R.J.D. designed the study. A.L., H.A.S., N.B.R., and A.D.F. were involved in data collection. A.L., N.B.R., A.D.F., and L.L.G. analyzed the data. A.L. wrote the paper. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to Antoine Lutz, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705. alutz{at}wisc.edu

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