In a Study Examining Brain Differences Between Practitioners of Meditation

question 87

Multiple Choice

In a study examining brain differences between practitioners of meditation and those who never meditated, MRI scans showed that:

• A)several cortical areas were thicker in the meditators' brains than in the nonmeditators.
• 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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