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Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.
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In a more recent work, Shitrit (2001) (as part of his doctoral dissertation) used a similar research paradigm with 15- to 18-year-old athletes. In fact, Shitrit introduced replications in several respects, such as using three sport disciplines (swimming, bas- ketball, and judo), two kinds of tasks (general and sport-specific), and two versions of
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Meditation Research Program
meditation.mgh.harvard.edu