On the neurobiology of meditation: Comparison of three organizing strategies to investigate brain patterns during meditation practice
Travis, Frederick (2020). On the neurobiology of meditation: Comparison of three organizing strategies to investigate brain patterns during meditation practice. Medicina, 56(12), 712.
Review comparing three strategies for organizing meditation research—combining all practices, studying each practice individually, or grouping practices into categories—and their consequences for identifying brain patterns during meditation.
- Year
- 2020
- Journal
- Medicina
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Research Review
- Section
- Review Papers
Findings (3)
Review Paper—Physiology
Compares three strategies for organizing meditation research: combining all practices, studying each practice individually, or grouping practices into categories.
Meditation research methods · Review Paper
Averaging across dissimilar practices can produce averaged patterns representative of none of them.
Meditation research methods · Review Paper
Electroencephalographic
Grouping meditations by their described procedures yields defining brain patterns within each category and clear differences between categories.
Meditation research methods · Review Paper