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The purpose of the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute is to advance collaborative research among cognitive and affective neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners and scholars. The long-term objective is to advance the training of a new generation of cognitive/affective neuroscientists interested in exploring the influence of contemplative practice on mind, behavior, and brain function, including the potential role of contemplative methods for characterizing human experience and consciousness, and a new generation of contemplative scholars interested in expanding their knowledge of the modern mind sciences.

In this final session, we are interested in putting together the pieces: in understanding how both traditions understand the functional interrelations between attention, imagery, and emotion; and, more broadly, what each tradition understands the “mind” to be, and on what empirical basis.

What can modern science learn from Buddhist’s rich and virtually untapped database of phenomenological observation? What can traditional Buddhism learn from us?

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.

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