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  2. Brain activity and meditation - Wikipedia

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    Highlighted region shows the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain shown to be activated during meditation. Meditation and its effect on brain activity and the central nervous system became a focus of collaborative research in neuroscience, psychology and neurobiology during the latter half of the 20th century. Research on meditation ...

  3. Meditation music - Wikipedia

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    Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation.It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

  4. Neuronal noise - Wikipedia

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    Neuronal activity at the microscopic level has a stochastic character, with atomic collisions and agitation, that may be termed "noise." [4] While it isn't clear on what theoretical basis neuronal responses involved in perceptual processes can be segregated into a "neuronal noise" versus a "signal" component, and how such a proposed dichotomy could be corroborated empirically, a number of ...

  5. Relaxation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] Combining deep breathing, gentle stretching, and mindful movements, yoga activates the body’s relaxation response, helping to calm the nervous system. This allows for lowering stress hormones, releasing tensions, and alleviating physical symptoms of stress, such as headaches or back pain.

  6. Mindfulness - Wikipedia

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    There are several exercises designed to develop mindfulness meditation, which may be aided by guided meditations "to get the hang of it". [9] [70] [note 3] As forms of self-observation and interoception, these methods increase awareness of the body, so they are usually beneficial to people with low self-awareness or low awareness of their bodies or emotional state.

  7. Frisson - Wikipedia

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    Piloerection (goose bumps), the physical part of frisson. Frisson (UK: / ˈ f r iː s ɒ n / FREE-son, US: / f r iː ˈ s oʊ n / free-SOHN [1] [2] French:; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals [3]) that often induces a pleasurable or ...

  8. Neural encoding of sound - Wikipedia

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    The neural encoding of sound is the representation of auditory sensation and perception in the nervous system. [1] The complexities of contemporary neuroscience are continually redefined. Thus what is known of the auditory system has been continually changing.

  9. Muse (headband) - Wikipedia

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    An accompanying mobile app converts the EEG signal into audio feedback that is fed to the user via headphones. [1] Muse is manufactured by InteraXon, a company based in Toronto , Ontario, Canada [ 2 ] that was founded in 2007 by Ariel Garten , Trevor Coleman, Chris Aimone, and Steve Mann originally at 330 Dundas Street West (Steve Mann's lab ...