Influence of long-term Sahaja Yoga meditation practice on emotional processing in the brain: An ERP study

Highlights • ERPs were obtained in meditators and controls during affective picture viewing. • Mid-latency ERP positivity for positive and negative stimuli was attenuated in meditators. • Long-term meditation practice influences processes of the fast automatic salience detection. • Attentional top-d...

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Published inNeuroscience Vol. 281; pp. 195 - 201
Main Authors Reva, N.V, Pavlov, S.V, Loktev, K.V, Korenyok, V.V, Aftanas, L.I
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Ltd 05.12.2014
Subjects
Adult
affective images
Cerebral Cortex - physiology
Electroencephalography
emotion
Emotions - physiology
ERP
Evoked Potentials - physiology
Humans
Male
Meditation
Middle Aged
mindfulness
Neurology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Time Factors
Yoga
frontal
ERP
C
F
frontal midline
analysis of variances
LPP
P
central
Cz
frontocentral
P3a
electroencephalography
International Affective Picture System
EEG
mindfulness
late positive potential
centroparietal
CP
affective images
central midline
ERPs
early P300
emotion
Fz
event-related brain potentials
meditation
IAPS
ANOVAs
FC
parietal
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Summary:Highlights • ERPs were obtained in meditators and controls during affective picture viewing. • Mid-latency ERP positivity for positive and negative stimuli was attenuated in meditators. • Long-term meditation practice influences processes of the fast automatic salience detection. • Attentional top-down control is more effective in meditators.
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ISSN:0306-4522
1873-7544
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.09.053