Table 6.

Main findings of studies regarding meditation and self-related processing

Supporting Information: Text within sections allocated to MHM is to specify either the differentiating factor between groups of similar experience level (e.g. meditation training vs relaxation training) or the level of meditation when mean hours of experience were not provided within the published paper.

Abbreviations: cortical midline structures (CMS); dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC); experienced meditators (EM); focused awareness meditation (FAM); functional connectivity (FC); inferior frontal cortex (IFC); lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC); naïve meditators (NM); mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR); precuneus (Pcu); self-referential processing (SRP); ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC).