Interoceptive awareness in experienced meditators
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Interoceptive awareness in experienced meditators.
Attention to internal body sensations is practiced in most meditation traditions. Many traditions state that this practice results in increased awareness of internal body sensations, but scientific studies evaluating this claim are lacking. We predicted that experienced meditators would display performance superior to that of nonmeditators on heartbeat detection, a standard noninvasive measure ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychophysiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0048-5772,1469-8986
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00666.x