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Overview

Amishi P. Jha is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics focused on mental processes and psychological interventions. Key topics include:

  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Jha's publications appear frequently in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Brain and Cognition

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jha include:

  • "Is resilience trainable? An initial study comparing mindfulness and relaxation training in firefighters" (2020, Psychiatry Research)
  • "Self-reported Mind Wandering and Response Time Variability Differentiate Prestimulus Electroencephalogram Microstate Dynamics during a Sustained Attention Task" (2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Associations between self-reported spontaneous thought and temporal sequences of EEG microstates" (2021, Brain and Cognition)
  • "Experience sampling of the degree of mind wandering distinguishes hidden attentional states" (2020, Cognition)
  • "Mind-wandering increases in frequency over time during task performance: An individual-participant meta-analytic review." (2024, Psychological Bulletin)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Anthony P. Zanesco
  • Ekaterina Denkova
  • Scott L. Rogers
  • Amy B. Adler
  • Jordan M. Barry

Best Publications

  • Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention.

    Amishi P. Jha;Jason Krompinger;Michael J. Baime

  • Examining the Protective Effects of Mindfulness Training on Working Memory Capacity and Affective Experience

    Amishi P. Jha;Elizabeth A. Stanley;Anastasia Kiyonaga;Ling Wong

  • Mindfulness training and reductions in teacher stress and burnout: Results from two randomized, waitlist-control field trials.

    Robert W. Roeser;Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl;Amishi Jha;Margaret Cullen

  • Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain.

    Matthew Botvinick;Amishi P. Jha;Lauren M. Bylsma;Sara A. Fabian

  • Investigating the phenomenological matrix of mindfulness-related practices from a neurocognitive perspective.

    Antoine Lutz;Amishi P. Jha;John D. Dunne;Clifford D. Saron

  • Contemplative Practices and Mental Training: Prospects for American Education

    Richard J. Davidson;John Dunne;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Adam Engle

  • ERP and fMRI measures of visual spatial selective attention

    George R. Mangun;Michael H. Buonocore;Massimo Girelli;Massimo Girelli;Amishi P. Jha

  • Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training: A Case Study of a High-Stress Predeployment Military Cohort.

    Elizabeth A. Stanley;John M. Schaldach;Anastasia Kiyonaga;Amishi P. Jha

  • Minds “At Attention”: Mindfulness Training Curbs Attentional Lapses in Military Cohorts

    Amishi P. Jha;Alexandra B. Morrison;Justin Dainer-Best;Suzanne Parker

  • What Is Inhibited in Inhibition of Return

    Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz;Amishi P. Jha;Amishi P. Jha;James Neils Rosenquist

  • Taming a wandering attention: short-form mindfulness training in student cohorts

    Alexandra B. Morrison;Merissa Goolsarran;Scott L. Rogers;Amishi P. Jha

  • The Influence of Memory Load Upon Delay-Interval Activity in a Working-Memory Task: An Event-Related Functional MRI Study

    Amishi P. Jha;Gregory McCarthy

  • Practice Is Protective: Mindfulness Training Promotes Cognitive Resilience in High-Stress Cohorts

    Amishi P. Jha;Alexandra B. Morrison;Suzanne C. Parker;Elizabeth A. Stanley

  • Investigating the impact of mindfulness meditation training on working memory: a mathematical modeling approach.

    Marieke K. van Vugt;Amishi P. Jha

  • Becoming conscious: the science of mindfulness.

    Steve Paulson;Richard Davidson;Amishi Jha;Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Promoting Novelty in Vision: Inhibition of Return Modulates Perceptual-Level Processing

    Todd C. Handy;Amishi P. Jha;George R. Mangun

  • Selective Attention Supports Working Memory Maintenance by Modulating Perceptual Processing of Distractors

    Kartik K. Sreenivasan;Amishi P. Jha

  • Tracking the time-course of attentional involvement in spatial working memory: an event-related potential investigation

    Amishi P Jha

  • Regional brain differences in the effect of distraction during the delay interval of a working memory task.

    Florin Dolcos;Brian Miller;Philip Kragel;Amishi Jha

  • The role of prefrontal cortex in resolving distractor interference

    Amishi P. Jha;Sara A. Fabian;Geoffrey K. Aguirre

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Roeser
Robert W. Roeser Pennsylvania State University
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Maria M. Llabre
Maria M. Llabre University of Miami
David R. Vago
David R. Vago Vanderbilt University
Lauren M. Bylsma
Lauren M. Bylsma University of Pittsburgh
Amy B. Adler
Amy B. Adler Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University
Ayelet Meron Ruscio
Ayelet Meron Ruscio University of Pennsylvania
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine

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