07 June 2012 by Anil Ananthaswamy
MEDITATION increases our ability to tap into the hidden recesses of our brain that are usually outside the reach of our conscious awareness.
That's according to Madelijn Strick of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues, who tested whether meditation has an effect on our ability to pick up subliminal messages.
Meditators are potentially accessing more of what the brain has paid attention to than non-meditators, she says.
"It is a truly exciting development that the second wave of rigorous, scientific meditation research is now yielding concrete results," says Thomas Metzinger, at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. "Meditation may be best seen as a process that literally expands the space of conscious experience."
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