Mind & Life XI – Session 2

Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XI: A Public Talk for New England” on September 14, 2003. Mental Imagery From its inception Buddhism has probed the nature of mind, using the mind itself as its instrument of investigation, especially with the aid of refined meditation methods. For the past millennium, Tibetan Buddhists …

Mind & Life XI – Session 1

Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XI: A Public Talk for New England” on September 14, 2003. Attention & Cognitive Control From its inception Buddhism has probed the nature of mind, using the mind itself as its instrument of investigation, especially with the aid of refined meditation methods. For the past millennium, …

Attention & Cognitive Control

Cognitive control is defined as the ability to act (or think) in accord with intention. These were once taboo topics within the biobehavioral sciences. However, with the rise of cognitive science and new developments in brain behavior research, the phenomena of attention and cognitive control have, over the past three decades, become central and burgeoning areas of research.