Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness

For a long time I've had an interest in Neuroscience.
I recently found an article by Antoine Lutz and others that looks very promising, even just because Antoine was a PhD student of Francisco Varela.

Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness. Antoine Lutz, John D. Dunne, Richard J. Davidson. In press in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness edited by Zelazo P., Moscovitch M. and Thompson E.

The paper is a review of the current research around finding evidence of links between meditation and its neural impact. This paper is a review such research.
In the first section, the authors provide an operational definition of meditation, trying to narrow down the wide spread of meanings.

This narrower definition is important to study “the Intersection of Neuroscience and
Meditation", the second section of the paper. Here the authors discuss what ismotivating neuroscientists to examine meditation and its impact on the mind-body interaction. It also addresses the issue of appropriate methodologies, something that Varela explored in a lot of his work.

The last section Neuroelectric and Neuroimaging Correlates of Meditation,” reviews neuroelectric and neuroimaging research.