Table 2.

Average pupillary parameters and statistical differences within and between groups.

	Non Meditators			Meditators
	Positive	Negative	Neutral	Positive	Negative	Neutral
Maximal contraction (nu)	−0.9577	−0.3608b/c	−1	−1.0113	−0.5325b/c	−1
Maximal dilation (nu)	−0.2913a	0.6726b	−0.4226	−0.1909	0.4447b	−0.2725
Latency of contraction (ms)	794.66	552.88b	810.66	685.45	594.5b	690.54
Contraction velocity (nu/ms)	−0.0078	−0.0043b	−0.0086	−0.0083	−0.0055b	−0.0086
Dilation velocity (nu/ms)	0.0018	0.0029b	0.0020	0.0024b	0.0027b	0.0021

^ap < 0.05; ^bp < 0.01 (significant differences against neutral images); p < 0.05 ^c(significant differences between MP and NM groups).