John D. Dunne

TL;DR: Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and emotional balance, which could have a long-term impact on the brain and behavior.

TL;DR: This article examines the construct of mindfulness in psychological research and reviews recent, nonclinical work in this area, interpreting it as a continuum of practices involving states and processes that can be mapped into a multidimensional phenomenological matrix which itself can be expressed in a neurocognitive framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the authors also suggest potential avenues of further inquiry and discuss the difficulties encountered when working with such theories.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the authors also suggest potential avenues of further inquiry and discuss the difficulties encountered when working with such theories.

TL;DR: A set of mental skills and socio-emotional dispositions that are central to the aims of education in the 21(st) century, including self-regulatory skills associated with emotion and attention, self-representations, and prosocial dispositions such as empathy and compassion are highlighted.