Table 4.

Correlation between meditation hours and Functional Connectivity (FC) in experienced meditators (EM)

Region	R	BA	Voxels	MNI (x,y,z mm)	p value*
Meditation state effects
Default Mode Network (DMN)seeds 1 and 2
Middle frontal gyrus	0.87	R 10	>200	45,44,12	0.02
Central Executive Network (CEN)seeds 3, 4, and 5
No correlations	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
State-to-trait effects
Default Mode Network (DMN)seeds 1 and 2
No correlations	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Central Executive Network (CEN)seeds 3, 4, and 5
Posterior Cingulate Cortex	0.63	L 29	>200	–06,–44,14	0.03
Trait effects
Default Mode Network (DMN)seeds 1 and 2
No correlations	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Central Executive Network (CEN)seeds 3, 4, and 5
Medial Frontal Gyrus	0.87	L 10	>200	–06,44,8	0.01

ROIs 1,2,3,4 and 5 from Fig. 1Aa.

*nonparametric (1000 permutations) with height threshold p < 0.05 and cluster-size FDR-corrected p < 0.05.