Figure 2.

(A) Mean of the Intrinsic-Driven Integration (IDMI) for each group during resting-state and meditation state. The IDMI was higher in meditators than in controls during resting-state and lower in meditators during meditation. No significant differences were observed in controls between conditions. Furthermore, we show the box plot from the surrogate IDMI data (on the bottom in green). The randomized data were significantly smaller than the original time-series, showing the robust statistical comparisons. (B) Both controls and meditators showed higher local metastability across the whole-brain during resting-state compared to meditation. However, the effect was significantly larger for meditators. Furthermore, the metastability in resting-state was significantly higher for experienced meditators than for controls. P-values are based on Monte-Carlo simulation after Bonferroni correction, *p ≤ 0.025, ***p ≤ 0.0005 and n.s represents not significant. (C) IDMI across events for each group during resting-state and meditation for 268 brain regions.