In a Study Examining the Brains of People Who Practice

question 511

Multiple Choice

In a study examining the brains of people who practice meditation, MRI scans showed that:

• A) cortical thickness was positively correlated with meditation experience.
• B) several cortical areas were thinner in the meditators' brains than in the nonmeditators.
• C) the meditators had less gray matter in regions associated with attention, emotion, and sensory processing.
• D) meditators and nonmeditators have identical brains.

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