Interesting study looking at striatal fxnl connectivity during FA and OM meditation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28274-4 … Cool findings, but reading the implications/conclusions, I also wonder whether this tells us anything we couldn't just get from the subjective experience of practice?
Also, basically a "what lights up" study with only 18 subjects and only 3 scans of 6 minutes.
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So, really, all this study shows is that deliberate focused attention vs spontaneous attention switching differ with regard to functional connectivity networks. Something we already knew, and, as you say, doesn't add much to self-report.
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Last, it's odd, given their title/conclusion, they don't cite our finding with
@KalinaChristoff that parahippocampal memory processes correlate with spontaneous arising of thoughts in vipassana, meaning that brain regions related to memory are involved in OM style practice
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