In a Study Examining Brain Differences Between Practitioners of Meditation

question 199

Multiple Choice

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

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

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Definitions:

Blind Spot

The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a “blind” spot because no receptor cells are located there.

Optic Nerve

A cranial nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain.

Retina

The light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye that converts light into neural signals, which are sent to the brain for visual recognition.

Visual Information

Data or knowledge acquired through the sense of sight.