Research Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 2015
Tang, Hölzel & Posner — Mindfulness Neuroscience
Attention, emotion regulation, self-awareness — the networks a high-bar review is willing to talk about. No audio mysticism. No guaranteed trait change from a weekend.
Yi-Yuan Tang, Britta K. Hölzel, and Michael I. Posner review the neuroscience of mindfulness meditation for Nature Reviews Neuroscience. This is the paper you hand to someone who thinks the field is only blogs.
Who, where, when
Attention and mindfulness researchers, 2015. PMID 25783612.
What the work actually did
They synthesize evidence on attentional control, emotion regulation, and self-referential processing, with the usual cautions about methods and overclaim.
What it does not prove
Mindfulness protocols are not binaural protocols. Overlap in “attention” language is not a license to treat a beat as MBSR.
How to use this page
Read this to know what meditation science actually argues. Then keep this console in the audio column.
Related
Editorial reading of published research. The official paper is authoritative. Not medical advice. Not a claim that consumer audio recreates a trial protocol.