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Amrendra Singh1, V S Chandrasekhar Pammi1, Anupam Guleria2

  • 1Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.

Progress in Brain Research
|February 9, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
AfterimagesConcentrative meditationInferior frontal cortexInferior occipital cortexMeditationVisual awarenessfMRI

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