Meditation Enhances Attention

Scientific American's Street Science
December 11, 2007
By Christie Nicholson

Neuroscientists discover a specific example of how meditating can give you the ability to notice things that non-meditators can't:

When you're concentrating on something and miss something else that should be obvious, that's the attentional blink. New research shows that meditators can avoid this gap in perception.

This week's episode of SciAm's new video podcast includes the first ever episode of a new segment we call Street Science. SciAm Editor Christie Nicholson reports on meditation and attentional blink from possibly the most distracting place on Earth, Time's Square...

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