New publication about meditation-based interventions and emotion processing

Meditation-based mental training interventions have been shown to have physical and mental health benefits. However, it remains unclear which role the specific type of mental practice plays. In context of the ReSource project conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig Pauline Favre, Philipp Kanske, Haakon Engen and Tania Singer investigate how different types of interventions affect emotion processing. The open-access article Decreased emotional reactivity after 3-month socio-affective but not attention- or meta-cognitive-based mental training: A randomized, controlled, longitudinal fMRI study was published in NeuroImage.

Pauline Favre,   Philipp Kanske,   Haakon Engen,   Tania Singer,  Decreased  emotional  reactivity  after  3-month  socio-affective  but  not  attention-  or  meta-cognitive-based  mental  training:  A  randomized,  controlled,  longitudinal  fMRI  study, NeuroImage(2021),  doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.11813