Peer-reviewed Publications

Mayer, S., Conklin, Q., Ridout, S. J., & Ridout, K. K. (2021). Telomeres and Early-Life Stress. Stress: Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics, 279–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813156-5.00027-3
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Dwyer, P., Ferrer, E., Saron, C. D., & Rivera, S. M. (2021). Exploring Sensory Subgroups in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Development Using Factor Mixture Modelling. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 10.1007/s10803-021-05256-6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05256-6

Dwyer, P., Wang, X., De Meo-Monteil, R., Hsieh, F., Saron, C. D. & Rivera, S. M. (2021). Using Clustering to Examine Inter-Individual Variability in Topography of Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Autism and Typical Development. Brain Topography, Online ahead of print: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-021-00863-z

Zanesco, A. P., Skwara, A. C., King, B. G., Powers, C., Wineberg, K. & Saron, C. D. (2021). Meditation training modulates brain electric microstates and felt states of awareness. Human Brain Mapping, 42(10), p3228-3252. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25430.

Dwyer, P., de Meo-Monteil, R., Saron, C. D., & Rivera, S. M. (2021). Effects of age on loudness-dependent auditory ERPs in young autistic and typically-developing children. Neuropsychologia, 156, 107837. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA.2021.107837
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Dwyer, P., Saron, C. D., & Rivera, S. M. (2020). Identification of Longitudinal Sensory Subtypes in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Development Using Growth Mixture Modelling. Research in autism spectrum disorders, 78, 101645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101645
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Shields, G. S., Skwara, A. C., King, B. G., Zanesco, A. P., Dhabhar, F. S., & Saron, C. D. (2020). Deconstructing the effects of concentration meditation practice on interference control: The roles of controlled attention and inflammatory activity. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 89, 256–267. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BBI.2020.06.034

Dwyer, P., Wang, X., De Meo-Monteil, R., Hsieh, F., Saron, C. D. & Rivera, S. M. (2020). Defining clusters of young autistic and typically-developing children based on loudness-dependent auditory electrophysiological responses. Molecular Autism, 11(1):48. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00352-3

Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Skwara, A. C., & Saron, C. D. (2020). Within and between-person correlates of the temporal dynamics of resting EEG microstates. NeuroImage, 211, 116631. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2020.116631

​Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Powers, C., De Meo, R., Wineberg, K., MacLean, K. A., & Saron, C.D. (2019). Modulation of Event-related Potentials of Visual Discrimination by MeditationTraining and Sustained Attention. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(8), p.1184-1204.  https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/jocn_a_01419

De Meo-Monteil, R., Nordahl, C.W., Amaral, D.G., Rogers, S.J., Harootonian, S.K., Martin, J., Rivera, S.M. and Saron, C.D. (2019), Differential Altered Auditory Event-Related Potential Responses in Young Boys on the Autism Spectrum With and Without Disproportionate Megalencephaly. Autism Research, 12: 1236-1250. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2137

King, B., Conklin, Q., Zanesco, A. P., & Saron, C. (2018, December 14). Residential Meditation Retreats: Their Role in Contemplative Practice and Significance for Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/xsd92

Conklin, Q., Crosswell, A., Saron, C., & Epel, E. (2018, November 2). Meditation, Stress Processes, and Telomere Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.11.009

Schmalzl, L., Powers, C., Zanesco, A. P., Yetz, N., Groessl, E. J., & Saron, C. D. (2018). The effect of movement-focused and breath-focused yoga practice on stress parameters and sustained attention: A randomized controlled pilot study. Consciousness and cognition, 65, 109–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.012

Conklin, Q. A., King, B. G., Zanesco, A. P., Lin, J., Hamidi, A. B., Pokorny, J. J., Álvarez-López, M. J., Cosín-Tomás, M., Huang, C., Kaliman, P., Epel, E. S., & Saron, C. D. (2018). Insight meditation and telomere biology: The effects of intensive retreat and the moderating role of personality. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 70, 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2018.03.003

Pokorny, J. J., Norman, A., Zanesco, A. P., Bauer-Wu, S., Sahdra, B. K., & Saron, C. D. (2018). Network analysis for the visualization and analysis of qualitative data. Psychological methods, 23(1), 169–183. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000129

Norman, A., & Pokorny, J. J. (2017). Meditation retreats: Spiritual tourism well-being interventions. Tourism Management Perspectives, 24, 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TMP.2017.07.012 

Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., MacLean, K. A., Jacobs, T. L., Aichele, S. R., Wallace, B. A., Smallwood, J., Schooler, J. W., & Saron, C. D. (2016). Meditation training influences mind wandering and mindless reading. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 3(1), 12–33. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000082

Lutz, A., Jha, A. P., Dunne, J. D., & Saron, C. D. (2015). Investigating the phenomenological matrix of mindfulness-related practices from a neurocognitive perspective. The American psychologist, 70(7), 632–658. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039585

Saggar, M., Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Bridwell, D. A., MacLean, K. A., Aichele, S. R., Jacobs, T. L., Wallace, B. A., Saron, C. D., & Miikkulainen, R. (2015). Mean-field thalamocortical modeling of longitudinal EEG acquired during intensive meditation training. NeuroImage, 114, 88–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.073

Rosenberg, E. L., Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Aichele, S. R., Jacobs, T. L., Bridwell, D. A., MacLean, K. A., Shaver, P. R., Ferrer, E., Sahdra, B. K., Lavy, S., Wallace, B. A., & Saron, C. D. (2015). Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering. Emotion, 15(6), 775–790. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000080

MacCoon, D. G., MacLean, K. A., Davidson, R. J., Saron, C. D., & Lutz, A. (2014). No sustained attention differences in a longitudinal randomized trial comparing mindfulness based stress reduction versus active control. PloS one, 9(6), e97551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097551

Garrison, K. A., Scheinost, D., Worhunsky, P. D., Elwafi, H. M., Thornhill, T. A., 4th, Thompson, E., Saron, C., Desbordes, G., Kober, H., Hampson, M., Gray, J. R., Constable, R. T., Papademetris, X., & Brewer, J. A. (2013). Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused attention. NeuroImage, 81, 110–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.030

Jacobs, T. L., Shaver, P. R., Epel, E. S., Zanesco, A. P., Aichele, S. R., Bridwell, D. A., Rosenberg, E. L., King, B. G., Maclean, K. A., Sahdra, B. K., Kemeny, M. E., Ferrer, E., Wallace, B. A., & Saron, C. D. (2013). Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 32(10), 1104–1109. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031362

Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Maclean, K. A., & Saron, C. D. (2013). Executive control and felt concentrative engagement following intensive meditation training. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7, 566. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00566

Saggar, M., King, B. G., Zanesco, A. P., Maclean, K. A., Aichele, S. R., Jacobs, T. L., Bridwell, D. A., Shaver, P. R., Rosenberg, E. L., Sahdra, B. K., Ferrer, E., Tang, A. C., Mangun, G. R., Wallace, B. A., Miikkulainen, R., & Saron, C. D. (2012). Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 6, 256. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00256

Jacobs, T. L., Epel, E. S., Lin, J., Blackburn, E. H., Wolkowitz, O. M., Bridwell, D. A., Zanesco, A. P., Aichele, S. R., Sahdra, B. K., MacLean, K. A., King, B. G., Shaver, P. R., Rosenberg, E. L., Ferrer, E., Wallace, B. A., & Saron, C. D. (2011). Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(5), 664–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.09.010

Sahdra, B. K., MacLean, K. A., Ferrer, E., Shaver, P. R., Rosenberg, E. L., Jacobs, T. L., Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Aichele, S. R., Bridwell, D. A., Mangun, G. R., Lavy, S., Wallace, B. A., & Saron, C. D. (2011). Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 11(2), 299–312. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022764

MacLean, K. A., Ferrer, E., Aichele, S. R., Bridwell, D. A., Zanesco, A. P., Jacobs, T. L., King, B. G., Rosenberg, E. L., Sahdra, B. K., Shaver, P. R., Wallace, B. A., Mangun, G. R., & Saron, C. D. (2010). Intensive meditation training improves perceptual discrimination and sustained attention. Psychological science, 21(6), 829–839. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610371339

MacLean, K. A., Aichele, S. R., Bridwell, D. A., Mangun, G. R., Wojciulik, E., & Saron, C. D. (2009). Interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention during vigilance. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 71(5), 1042–1058. https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.71.5.1042

Fannon, S. P., Saron, C. D., & Mangun, G. R. (2008). Baseline shifts do not predict attentional modulation of target processing during feature-based visual attention. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 1, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/neuro.09.007.2007

Saint-Amour, D., Saron, C. D., Schroeder, C. E., & Foxe, J. J. (2005). Can whole brain nerve conduction velocity be derived from surface-recorded visual evoked potentials? A re-examination of Reed, Vernon, and Johnson (2004). Neuropsychologia, 43(12), 1838–1844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.02.010

Foxe, J. J., Simpson, G. V., Ahlfors, S. P., & Saron, C. D. (2005). Biasing the brain's attentional set: I. cue driven deployments of intersensory selective attention. Experimental brain research, 166(3-4), 370–392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-005-2378-7

Saron, C. D., Schroeder, C. E., Foxe, J. J., & Vaughan, H. G., Jr (2001). Visual activation of frontal cortex: segregation from occipital activity. Brain research. Cognitive brain research, 12(1), 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-6410(01)00036-2

Davidson, R. J., & Saron, C. D. (1992). Evoked potential measures of interhemispheric transfer time in reading disabled and normal boys. Developmental Neuropsychology, 8(2-3), 261–277. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565649209540527

Cohen, B. H., Davidson, R. J., Senulis, J. A., Saron, C. D., & Weisman, D. R. (1992). Muscle tension patterns during auditory attention. Biological psychology, 33(2-3), 133–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0511(92)90028-s

Davidson, R. J., Ekman, P., Saron, C. D., Senulis, J. A., & Friesen, W. V. (1990). Approach-withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry: emotional expression and brain physiology. I. Journal of personality and social psychology, 58(2), 330–341.

Davidson, R. J., Leslie, S. C., & Saron, C. (1990). Reaction time measures of interhemispheric transfer time in reading disabled and normal children. Neuropsychologia, 28(5), 471–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(90)90073-w

Saron, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (1989). Visual evoked potential measures of interhemispheric transfer time in humans. Behavioral neuroscience, 103(5), 1115–1138. https://doi.org/10.1037//0735-7044.103.5.1115

Davidson, R. J., Mednick, D., Moss, E., Saron, C., & Schaffer, C. E. (1987). Ratings of emotion in faces are influenced by the visual field to which stimuli are presented. Brain and Cognition, 6(4), 403–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(87)90136-9

Davidson, R. J., Schaffer, C. E., & Saron, C. (1985). Effects of lateralized presentations of faces on self-reports of emotion and EEG asymmetry in depressed and non-depressed subjects. Psychophysiology, 22(3), 353–364. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1985.tb01615.x

Moss, E. M., Davidson, R. J., & Saron, C. (1985). Cross-cultural differences in hemisphericity: EEG asymmetry discriminates between Japanese and Westerners. Neuropsychologia, 23(1), 131–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(85)90054-5

Schaffer, C. E., Davidson, R. J., & Saron, C. (1983). Frontal and parietal electroencephalogram asymmetry in depressed and nondepressed subjects. Biological psychiatry, 18(7), 753–762.

McClelland, D. C., Davidson, R., Saron, C., & Floor, E. (1980). The need for power, brain norepinephrine turnover and learning. Biological Psychology, 10(2), 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0511(80)90030-7

Davidson, R. J., Saron, C., & McClelland, D. C. (1980). Effects of personality and semantic content of stimuli on augmenting and reducing in the event-related potential. Biological Psychology, 11(3–4), 249–255. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0511(80)90059-9

McClelland, D. C., Floor, E., Davidson, R. J., & Saron, C. (1980). Stressed power motivation, sympathetic activation, immune function, and illness. Journal of Human Stress, 6(2), 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1980.9934531

Book Chapters

Skwara AC, King BG, Saron CD: Studies of Training Compassion. In The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science. Edited by Seppala EM, Simon-Thomas E, Brown SL, Worline MC, Cameron CD, Doty JR. Oxford University Press; 2017.

​Saron, CD (2013). The Shamatha Project Adventure: A Personal Account of an Ambitious Meditation Study and its First Results. In: Compassion: Bridging Theory and Practice. T Singer and M Bolz (Eds). Munich, DE: Max Planck Society. Free eBook available here. 

Saron, CD (2013). Training the Mind—The Shamatha Project. In: The Healing Power of Meditation. Fraser, A (Editor). Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications 45-65. 

Mangun, GR, Fannon, SP, Geng, JJ, & Saron, CD (2009). Imaging brain attention systems: Control and selection in vision. In: fMRI techniques and protocols; M Filippi (Editor), Humana Press, Inc. 353-378. 

Mangun, GR, Saron, CD and Walsh, BJ (2009). Integration of conflict detection and attentional control mechanisms: Combined ERP and fMRI studies. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences IV. Gazzaniga, M.S. (Editor), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 251-258. 

Saron, CD, Foxe, JJ, Simpson, GV, & Vaughan, HG, Jr. (2003). Interhemispheric visuomotor activation: spatiotemporal electrophysiology related to reaction time. In: The Parallel Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum. E Zaidel & M Iacoboni (Eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 171-219. 

Saron CD, Foxe, JJ, Schroeder, CE, & Vaughan, HG, Jr. (2003). Complexities of interhemispheric interaction in sensory-motor tasks revealed by high-density eventrelated potential mapping. In: The asymmetrical brain. K Hugdahl & RJ Davidson (Eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT press. 341-408. 

Houshmand, Z, Harrington, A, Saron, CD, & Davidson, RJ (2001). Training the mind: First steps in a cross-cultural collaboration in neuroscientific research. In: Visions of compassion - Western scientists and Tibetan Buddhists examine human nature. RJ Davidson & A Harrington (Eds). New York: Oxford University Press. 3-17. 

Saron, CD, Foxe, JJ, Simpson, GV, & Vaughan, HG, Jr. (2000). Electrophysiological indices of interhemispheric visuomotor interaction [translated to Italian]. In: Psicofisiologia Cognitiva: Le basi neuro-funzionali delle mente umana [Cognitive Psychophysiology: The neurofunctional substrates of the human mind], Proverbio, M and Zani A (Eds). Carocci Editore: Roma, Italy. 381-440. 

Saron, CD & Davidson, RJ (1997). The brain and emotions. In: Healing emotions: conversations with the Dalai Lama on mindfulness, emotions and health. D Goleman, Ed. Boston: Shambala, 67-88.