Key Scientific Papers
Mindfulness & Meditation
Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources
Long-term Meditators Self-induce High-amplitude Gamma Synchrony During Mental Practice
Studies of Advanced Stages of Meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist and Vedic Traditions: A Comparison of General Changes
Short-term Meditation Training Improves Attention and Self-regulation
Studying the Well-trained Mind
Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition
A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States
Mechanisms of Mindfulness
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Training Modifies Subsystems of Attention
Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise
Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review
The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-being
Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness
Zazen and Cardiac Variability
Positive Psychology
Adaptive Mental Mechanisms - Their Role in a Positive Psychology
Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill - Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-being
Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-being
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?
On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being
Mental Balance and Well-being Building Bridges Between Buddhism and Western Psychology
Does Positive Affect Influence Health?
Positive Psychology Progress Empirical Validation of Interventions
Psychological Resources, Positive Illusions, and Health
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?
Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Happiness is a Matter of Choice
Relationships
Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees
Empathy and Consciousness
Empathy: Its Ultimate and Proximate Bases
Social Transmission of Face Preferences Among Humans
The Selfish Nature of Generosity: Harassment and Food Sharing in Primates
Nonverbal Behavior and the Vertical Dimension of Social Relations: A Meta-Analysis
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
Relationships as Regulators: A Psychobiologic Perspective on Bereavement
Winners Don't Punish
Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations
What Is Self-Specific? Theoretical Investigation and Critical Review of
Neuroimaging Results
The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a
social nervous system
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality
Negativity Bias
Bad is Stronger than Good
Negative Information Weighs More Heavily on the Brain: The Negativity Bias in Evaluative Categorizations
Fundamental Neurology
Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex
The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons to Neural Masses and Corcial Fields
Six Views of Embodied Cognition
Wandering Minds: the Default Network and Stimulus-independent Thought
Systems Theory
Cognitive Time Scales in a Necker-Zeno Model for Bistable Perception
Contextual Emergence from Physics to Cognitive Neuroscience
Communication
Is Communication a Skill? Communication Behaviors and Being in Relationships
Consciousness
Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness?
Primates, Monks and the Mind
Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Neurodynamics of Consciousness
Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness
Decision-Making
The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-making in the Ultimatum Game
Decision Making, the P3, and the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System
Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations
Emotions
Embodying Emotion
Integration of Emotion and Cognition in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
Valence, Gender, and Lateralization of Functional Brain Anatomy in Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Findings from Neuroimaging
Emotional States and Physical Health
Emotion-induced Changes in Human Medial Prefrontal Cortex: During Anticipatory Anxiety
Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise
Disruption of Right Prefrontal Cortex by Low-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induces Risk-taking Behavior
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
Resilient Individuals Use Positive Emotions to Bounce Back from Negative Emotional Experiences
Cognition
Integration of Emotion and Cognition in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
The Eureka Hunt: Why Do Good Ideas Come to Us When They Do?
Prefrontal Cortex and Flexible Cognitive Control: Rules Without Symbols
Disruption of Right Prefrontal Cortex by Low-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induces Risk-taking Behavior
Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought
Gender
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
Self
Is Self Special? A Critical Review of Evidence from Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Philosophical Conceptions of the Self: Implications for Cognitive Science
What Is Self-Specific? Theoretical Investigation and Critical Review of
Neuroimaging Results
The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a
social nervous system
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality
Memory
Internally Generated Reactivation of Single Neurons in Human Hippocampus During Free Recall
Pain
Placebo and Opioid Analgesia - Imaging a Shared Neuronal Network
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
Evolution
Primates, Monks and the Mind
Tool-use Training in a Species of Rodent: The Emergence of an Optimal Motor Strategy and Functional Understanding
Non-Human Species
Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition
