In a Meditation Training Study Where Participants Learned to Meditate

question 193

Multiple Choice

In a meditation training study where participants learned to meditate in an 8-week course, it was found that:

• A)cortical thickness was negatively correlated with meditation experience.
• B)meditation does not alter the brain.
• C)the new meditators showed gray-matter density decreases in several cortical areas.
• D)the new meditators showed gray-matter density increases in several cortical areas.

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