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'''Contemplative neuroscience''' (or '''contemplative science''') is the field in which neuroscience tools, like [[Wikipedia:fMRI|fMRI]], are used to study the effects of [[Wikipedia:meditation|meditation]]. Founders of the field include [[Wikipedia:Richard Davidson|Richard Davidson]], [[Francisco Varela]] and [[Wikipedia:B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]], among others. It often emphasizes [[Wikipedia:Buddhist|Buddhist]] approaches to contemplation and meditation, and conflates meditation with various contemplative practices.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Komjathy |first1=Louis |title=Contemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer |date=2015 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9781438457079 |page=740 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cq95CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA740 |language=en}}</ref>

'''Contemplative neuroscience''' (or '''contemplative science''') is the field in which neuroscience tools, like [[Wikipedia:fMRI|fMRI]], are used to study the effects of [[meditation|meditation]]. Founders of the field include [[Wikipedia:Richard Davidson|Richard Davidson]], [[Francisco Varela]] and [[Wikipedia:B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]], among others. It often emphasizes [[Wikipedia:Buddhist|Buddhist]] approaches to contemplation and meditation, and conflates meditation with various contemplative practices.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Komjathy |first1=Louis |title=Contemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer |date=2015 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9781438457079 |page=740 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cq95CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA740 |language=en}}</ref>

One of the field's first high-profile public gatherings was the [[Mind and Life Institute]]’s public dialogue, held at [[Wikipedia:MIT|MIT]] in 2003, entitled 'Investigating the Mind'.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Barinaga, Marcia|title=Buddhism and Science: Studying the Well-trained Mind|journal=Science Magazine|date=October 3, 2003|volume=302|issue=5642|pages=44–46|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/302/5642/44.summary|accessdate=30 July 2015|publisher=Highwire Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> Participants included the 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureate scientist Daniel Kahneman and Eric Lander, Director of the MIT Centre for Genomic Research. This conference, attended by 1,200 scientists and contemplatives, marked the public birth of contemplative neuroscience in the USA.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Harrington, Zajonc|title=The Dalai Lama at MIT|date=2003|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=USA|isbn=978-0674023192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1ZxmnsIEIQC&q=the+dalai+lama+at+mit&pg=PA3|quote=Records of Conference "Investigating the Mind" at MIT}}</ref>

One of the field's first high-profile public gatherings was the [[Mind and Life Institute]]’s public dialogue, held at [[Wikipedia:MIT|MIT]] in 2003, entitled 'Investigating the Mind'.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Barinaga, Marcia|title=Buddhism and Science: Studying the Well-trained Mind|journal=Science Magazine|date=October 3, 2003|volume=302|issue=5642|pages=44–46|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/302/5642/44.summary|accessdate=30 July 2015|publisher=Highwire Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> Participants included the 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureate scientist Daniel Kahneman and Eric Lander, Director of the MIT Centre for Genomic Research. This conference, attended by 1,200 scientists and contemplatives, marked the public birth of contemplative neuroscience in the USA.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Harrington, Zajonc|title=The Dalai Lama at MIT|date=2003|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=USA|isbn=978-0674023192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1ZxmnsIEIQC&q=the+dalai+lama+at+mit&pg=PA3|quote=Records of Conference "Investigating the Mind" at MIT}}</ref>

* [[Wikipedia:James H. Austin|James Austin]]

* [[Wikipedia:James H. Austin|James Austin]]

* [[Wikipedia:James Doty (physician)|James Doty]]

* [[Wikipedia:James Doty (physician)|James Doty]]

* [[Wikipedia:Mindfulness#Scientific research|Mindfulness]]

* [[Mindfulness#Scientific research|Mindfulness]]

== References ==

== References ==