{"id":1703,"date":"2008-09-13T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2008-09-14T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T09:04:26","slug":"if-a-thought-arises-take-note-of-it-and-then-dismiss-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/09\/if-a-thought-arises-take-note-of-it-and-then-dismiss-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If a thought arises, take note of it and then dismiss it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we really control our thoughts? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003083\">PLoS ONE paper<\/a> is looking into neural correlates of distraction by comparing 12 Zen meditators and 12 control subjects that were offered a &#8220;real English word&#8221; or &#8220;not a real English word&#8221; while resting in a 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/radiologie-uni-frankfurt.de\/content\/e4864\/e27\/e31\/e147\/e6369\/index_ger.html\">Tesla Siemens Magnetom<\/a>. Outcome has been the time of refocusing attention to the breathing. The results are quite convincing (and not really unexpected) that the Zen meditators showed a reduced duration of their neural response to distraction probably by cutting down emotional self-reflectance and other associations coming up. I would be happy to participate also in a trial where somebody could record my EEG while driving on the of these new 185 kW <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tesla_Motors\">Tesla roadsters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 30.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we really control our thoughts? A PLoS ONE paper is looking into neural correlates of distraction by comparing 12 Zen meditators and 12 control subjects that were offered a &#8220;real English word&#8221; or &#8220;not a real English word&#8221; while resting in a 3 Tesla Siemens Magnetom. Outcome has been the time of refocusing attention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/09\/if-a-thought-arises-take-note-of-it-and-then-dismiss-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If a thought arises, take note of it and then dismiss it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2031,2030,2029,2028,2032,2033],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-eeg","tag-english-word","tag-magnetom","tag-neural-response","tag-tesla","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}