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...another given books on tape with which to chill out. Over the next few months, the meditators produced far more theta waves than the book listeners, essentially deactivating the frontal areas of the brain that receive and process sensory information. They also managed to lower activity in the parietal lobe, a section of the brain located near the top of the head that orients you in space and time. By shutting down the parietal lobe, you can lose your sense of boundaries and feel more "at one" with the universe, which probably feels a lot less boring than it sounds...
...door and leave it next to the meditators. When they reached meditative Nirvana, they pulled the string, and Newberg released the dye into the subjects' arms. His results showed that the brain doesn't shut off when it meditates but rather blocks information from coming into the parietal lobe. Meanwhile, Benson took a group of highly focused Sikhs who could meditate while an fMRI machine clanked away, and he measured the blood flow in their brains. Overall blood flow was down, but in certain areas, including the limbic system (which generates emotions and memories and regulates heart rate, respiratory rate...
BEFORE meditation --Frontal lobe --Parietal lobe --Occipital lobe...
...worked as a research assistant in Kosslyn’s lab, working on a study of differences in visual mental imagery by testing about 30 subjects on visual imagery tasks and performing statistical analysis on the results. She also assisted a study of frontal lobe activation in infants jointly undertaken by Harvard Medical School students and graduate students at Harvard’s Laboratory of Infant Study...
...article, entitled “Brain Development: Memory Enhancement in Early Childhood,” Liston and Kagan suggested that memory improvement during infancy is directly related to the development of the brain’s frontal lobe and hippocampus—the parts of the brain responsible for memory retention and retrieval...