Philipp Sebastian T, Kalisch Tobias, Wachtler Thomas, Dinse Hubert R
Institute fur Neuroinformatics, Neural Plasticity Lab, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2015 Aug 27;5:13549. doi: 10.1038/srep13549.
Bodily training typically evokes behavioral and perceptual gains, enforcing neuroplastic processes and affecting neural representations. We investigated the effect on somatosensory perception of a three-day Zen meditation exercise, a purely mental intervention. Tactile spatial discrimination of the right index finger was persistently improved by only 6 hours of mental-sensory focusing on this finger, suggesting that intrinsic brain activity created by mental states can alter perception and behavior similarly to external stimulation.
身体训练通常会带来行为和感知方面的提升，强化神经可塑性过程并影响神经表征。我们研究了为期三天的禅宗冥想练习（一种纯粹的心理干预）对体感知觉的影响。仅通过对右手食指进行6小时的心理-感觉聚焦，该手指的触觉空间辨别能力就持续得到了改善，这表明心理状态所产生的内在大脑活动能够像外部刺激一样改变感知和行为。
