Brain regions involved in attentional control that have shown changes:

Anterior cingulate cortex 

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Putamen

Parietal lobe

University of Georgia

Mindfulness meditation improves conflict monitoring and reduces attentional blink. These changes were studies using the attention network test (ANT) and other experimental paradigms to determine the effects of meditation on attentional performance.

Effects of mindfulness meditation on attention

Tang, YY., Hölzel, B. & Posner, M. The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nat Rev Neurosci 16, 213–225 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3916.

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation

Short-term studies (1 week) have not discovered significant effects in alerting, but studies investigating long-term meditation have detected changes in alerting. Early phases of mindfulness meditation may involve improvements in conflict monitoring and orienting, whereas later phases may mainly involve improved alerting.


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