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Heleen Slagter

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Verified email at vu.nl
Cited by 13208

Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation

A Lutz, HA Slagter, JD Dunne, RJ Davidson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory
training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and …

The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

AJ Shackman, TV Salomons, HA Slagter… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in
distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a …

Inhibition in selective attention

D van Moorselaar, HA Slagter - … of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on our
ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor inhibition …

[HTML][HTML] Mental training affects distribution of limited brain resources

HA Slagter, A Lutz, LL Greischar, AD Francis… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the so-called
“attentional-blink” deficit: When two targets (T1 and T2) embedded in a rapid stream …

Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidence

A Lutz, HA Slagter, NB Rawlings… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its
impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impairments in sustained attention in …

[HTML][HTML] Mental training as a tool in the neuroscientific study of brain and cognitive plasticity

HA Slagter, RJ Davidson, A Lutz - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Although the adult brain was once seen as a rather static organ, it is now clear that the
organization of brain circuitry is constantly changing as a function of experience or learning. Yet, …

Knowing good from bad: differential activation of human cortical areas by positive and negative outcomes

S Nieuwenhuis, HA Slagter… - European Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has identified a component of the event‐related brain potential (ERP),
the feedback‐related negativity, that is elicited by feedback stimuli associated with …

Functional anatomical correlates of controlled and automatic processing

JM Jansma, NF Ramsey, HA Slagter… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2001 - direct.mit.edu
Behavioral studies have shown that consistent practice of a cognitive task can increase the
speed of performance and reduce variability of responses and error rate, reflecting a shift …

Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: impact of intensive mental training

HA Slagter, A Lutz, LL Greischar… - Journal of cognitive …, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
… Based on this description, we hypothesized that not only will such training reduce elaborate
T1 processing, as we previously observed (Slagter et al., 2007), but it will also render the …

[HTML][HTML] From many to (n) one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

RE Laukkonen, HA Slagter - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying account
of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from simple …