How Meditation Works

Source: PNAS Early Edition 2007.

Only 20 minutes!

The projet was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education of China and the UO's Brain, Biology and Machine Initiative.

Co-authors with Tang and Posner were: Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang, Yaxin Fan, Shigang Feng, Qilin Lu, Qingbao Yu and Danni Sui, all of the Institute of Neuroinformatics and Laboratory for Body and Mind at Dalian University of Technology, Ming Fan of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences in Beijing, and Mary K. Rothbart, professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon. Tang also is affiliated with the Key Laboratory for Mental Health and Center for Social & Organizational Behavior, both located in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

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Contact: Jim Barlow, 541-346-3481, jebarlow@uoregon.edu

Sources: Yi-Yuantang, professor of neuroinformatics (Dalian University of Technology, China) and visiting scholar (University of Oregon), yiyuan@uoregon.edu; and Michael I. Posner, professor emeritus of psychology, 541-346-4939, mposner@uoregon.edu

Links: Posner faculty page: http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/ionmain/htdocs/faculty/posner.html
psychology department:
http://psychweb.uoregon.edu/

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