Brain network including the angular gyrus, medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex, which is characterized by correlating activation during auto-biographical, self-referential processing and social cognition functions, but deactivation in external attention-demanding tasks.
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Mindfulness Interventions and Executive Functions: Cognitive and Clinical Implications for Children and Adolescents
Skaiste Kerusauskaite (Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Antonino Raffone (Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9075-1.ch010
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors address the development of executive functions and their enhancement by mindfulness-based training, with the implicated neurocognitive mechanisms. Specifically, the development of executive functions, related brain networks, and methods for training them are concisely discussed. Additionally, in more extended sections, the authors review empirical findings on mindfulness meditation training and its effects on cognition, the mechanisms implicated in mindfulness training, mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents, and mindfulness training in developmental disorders.