Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction
@inproceedings{Lutz2007MeditationAT, title={Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction}, author={A. Lutz and John D. Dunne and R. Davidson}, year={2007} }
The overall goal of this chapter is to explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the chapter also suggests potential avenues of further inquiry. It has three sections that, although integral to the chapter as a whole, may also be read independently. The first section, “Defining Meditation,” notes the need for a more precise understanding of meditation as a scientific explanandum. Arguing for the importance of distinguishing the particularities of… Expand
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