MINDFULNESS AND THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF ATTENTION AND AWARENESS
Zygon December 3, 2025 Antonino Raffone, Angela Tagini, Narayanan Srinivasan 36 citations
Mindfulness is the mental ability to focus on the present moment with nonjudgmental awareness, cultivated through meditation practices originating in eastern spiritual traditions. This article examines the relationships among mindfulness, meditation, and the cognitive neuroscience of attention and awareness. Mindful awareness is linked to distributed attention, phenomenal consciousness, and momentary self-awareness, supported by cognitive psychology and neuroscience findings. An integrated neurocognitive model is proposed, highlighting the key role of the prefrontal cortex in these processes.