How meditation enhances brain function
What is the mechanism by which meditation enhances brain function Coons! Night of the Bandits of the Night film ? At the Investigating the Mind conference held in Washington DC in November 2005, sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute The Hearse ipod , Dr. Wolf Singer (picture), Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, presented an intriguing hypothesis.
Man on Wire psp Dr. Singer’s research focus is the so-called binding problem: how are processes integrated within the distributed cortical architecture? His theory is that precisely calibrated neural clocks The Boys of Ghost Town film
serve to coordinate the massive number of parallel, distributed subprocesses in the brain
. Stated differently, various parts of the brain work together—talk to each other—by operating at the same frequency, sort of like neural walkie-talkies.
The frequencies Singer has identified as serving the integrative function are in the beta- and gamma frequency range
. That’s interesting because gamma frequencies have also been identified as those enhanced by meditative practice (previous post).
This leads to a radical new hypothesis for how meditation enhances brain function: it improves synchronization, boosting the efficiency with which the parts and processes of the brain can work together.
May 10th, 2006 at 5:58 am
Thankyou for all your interesting posts. I teach and practice meditation, intuitive development and self-mastery skills and I very much appreciate the information and references you provide in your blog.
Peace and Joy be with you!
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