Duality and nonduality in meditation research.
Author: Josipovic Z.
Affiliation:
Psychology Dept. and Center for Neural Science, New York University, 6 Washington Pl, Rm 957, New York, NY 10003, United States. zoran@cns.nyu.edu
Conference/Journal: Conscious Cogn.
Date published: 2010 Dec
Other:
Volume ID: 19 , Issue ID: 4 , Pages: 1119-21; discussion 1122-3 , Special Notes: Conscious Cogn. 2010 Dec;19(4):1110-8. , Word Count: 89
The great variety of meditation techniques found in different contemplative traditions presents a challenge when attempting to create taxonomies based on the constructs of contemporary cognitive sciences. In the current issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Travis and Shear add 'automatic self-transcending' to the previously proposed categories of 'focused attention' and 'open monitoring', and suggest characteristic EEG bands as the defining criteria for each of the three categories. Accuracy of current taxonomies and potential limitations of EEG measurements as classifying criteria are discussed.
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PMID: 20385506
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