#84: The Brain of a Mental Olympian - Elena Antonova, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
Is There a Balance Between the Default Network and the Task Positive Network?
Mirai: There's a meditator named Locke Kelly who is probably in that stage four category and has his brain's been studied quite a bit at Yale and MIT and other labs. He was part of this research group that showed that these practitioners had a balanced, they'd balanced their default network and their task positive network,. Right? I guess you wouldn't be functional if you didn't have some sense of a separate self, right? You wouldn't be able to go grocery shopping and do these very practical tasks, but it seems like there was just this perfect balance according to that research where there was no getting caught up in nothingness. Mirai: For me the process is not
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