Meditation

Narayanan Srinivasan, Ph.D., is currently Professor and Head at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad. Dr. Srinivasan was a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute from 2006-2012. He has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and PhD in Psychology from University of Georgia. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louisville. He also worked at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for two years before joining one of the first centres for Cognitive Science in India. He has been working at CBCS for the past fourteen years. He is interested in understanding mental processes, especially attention, emotions, consciousness and meditation using multiple methodologies. Dr. Srinivasan has edited seven books and three special issues. He has more than hundred and forty publications. Dr. Srinivasan is a fellow of Association for Psychological Science. He was the Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Mind, Brain, and Cognition. He is currently an associate editor of Neuroscience of Consciousness, Royal Society Open Science, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, PsyCh journal, and Cognitive Processing and a member of the editorial board of Connection Science and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

• 1. The neuroscience of meditation: Classification, phenomenology, correlates, and mechanismsTracy Brandmeyer, Arnaud Delorme and Helané Wahbeh2. Evolution from four mental states to the highest state of consciousness: A neurophysiological basis of meditation as defined in yoga textsSingh Deepeshwar, H.R. Nagendra and Bal Budhi Rana3. Meditation induces physical relaxation and enhances cognition: A perplexing paradoxKishore K. Deepak4. Contingent negative variation and P3 modulations following mindful movement trainingStefano Lasaponara, Joseph Glicksohn, Federica Mauro and Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan5. State-trait influences of Vipassana meditation practice on P3 EEG dynamicsRatna Jyothi Kakumanu, Ajay Kumar Nair, Arun Sasidharan, John P. John, Seema Mehrotra, Ravindra Panth and Bindu M. Kutty6. Short-term mindful breath awareness training improves inhibitory control and response monitoringJoan P. Pozuelos, Bethan R. Mead, Maria Rosario Rueda and Peter Malinowski7. Fully immersed: State absorption and electrophysiological effects of the OVO Whole-Body Perceptual Deprivation chamberTal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Federica Mauro, Stefano Lasaponara, Joseph Glicksohn, Fabio Marson and Aviva Berkovich-Ohana8. Concentrative (Sahaj Samadhi) meditation training and visual awareness: An fMRI study on color afterimagesAmrendra Singh, V. S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, Anupam Ghuleria and Narayanan Srinivasan9. Toward a brain theory of meditationAntonino Raffone, Laura Marzetti, Cosimo Del Gratta, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Gian Luca Romani and Vittorio Pizzella10. Tibetan Buddhist monastic debate: Psychological and neuroscientific analysis of a reasoning-based analytical meditation practiceMarieke K. van Vugt, Amir Moye, Joshua Pollock, Bryce Johnson, Marcel O. Bonn-Miller, Kalden Gyatso, Jampa Thakchoe, Thokney Adentsang, Ngawang Norbu, Lobsang Tenzin, Thabkhe Lodroe, Jampa Lobsang, Jampa Gyaltsen, Jampa Khechok, Thupten Gyaltsen and David M. Fresco11. Training attention for conscious non-REM sleep: The yogic practice of yoga-nidrā and its implications for neuroscience researchStephen Parker12. Nondual awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivityZoran Josipovic13. The contemplative exercise through the lenses of predictive processing: A promising approachGiuseppe Pagnoni14. Mindfulness training as cognitive training in high-demand cohorts: An initial study in elite military servicemembersAnthony P. Zanesco, Ekaterina Denkova, Scott L. Rogers, William K. MacNulty and Amishi P. Jha15. Contemplative neuroscience, self-awareness, and educationAviva Berkovich-Ohana, Patricia A. Jennings and Shiri Lavy16. Yoga: Balancing the excitation-inhibition equilibrium in psychiatric disordersUrvakhsh Meherwan Mehta and Bangalore N. Gangadhar