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Overview

Clifford D. Saron is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on neuroscience and psychology, contributing extensively to cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Their work also touches on education and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics covered in Saron's research include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Saron has published papers in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Mindfulness
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Research Square
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Some recent publications illustrating the scope of their work are:

  • "Within and between-person correlates of the temporal dynamics of resting EEG microstates," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Clinically Meaningful Subgroups of Autism," 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Meditation training modulates brain electric microstates and felt states of awareness," 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Deconstructing the effects of concentration meditation practice on interference control: The roles of controlled attention and inflammatory activity," 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Identification of Longitudinal Sensory Subtypes in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Development Using Growth Mixture Modelling," 2020, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Patrick Dwyer
  • Susan M. Rivera
  • Brandon G. King
  • Anthony P. Zanesco
  • Alea C. Skwara

Best Publications

  • Approach-Withdrawal and Cerebral Asymmetry: Emotional Expression and Brain Physiology I

    Richard J. Davidson;Paul Ekman;Clifford D. Saron;Joseph A. Senulis

  • Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation:

    Nicholas T Van Dam;Marieke K van Vugt;David R Vago;Laura Schmalzl

  • Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention

    Katherine A. MacLean;Emilio Ferrer;Stephen R. Aichele;David A. Bridwell

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

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

  • Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators

    Tonya L. Jacobs;Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Frontal and parietal electroencephalogram asymmetry in depressed and nondepressed subjects.

    Carrie E. Schaffer;Richard J. Davidson;Clifford Saron

  • Stressed power motivation, sympathetic activation, immune function, and illness.

    David C. McClelland;Erik Floor;Richard J. Davidson;Clifford Saron

  • Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning.

    Baljinder K. Sahdra;Katherine A. MacLean;Emilio Ferrer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective

    Phillip R. Shaver;Shiri Lavy;Clifford D. Saron;Mario Mikulincer

  • Effects of lateralized presentations of faces on self-reports of emotion and EEG asymmetry in depressed and non-depressed subjects.

    Richard J. Davidson;Carrie Ellen Schaffer;Clifford Saron

  • Visual evoked potential measures of interhemispheric transfer time in humans.

    Clifford D. Saron;Richard J. Davidson

  • Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused attention.

    Kathleen A. Garrison;Dustin Scheinost;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Hani M. Elwafi

  • Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity

    Manish Saggar;Brandon G. King;Anthony P. Zanesco;Katherine A. MacLean

  • Interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention during vigilance

    Katherine A. MacLean;Stephen R. Aichele;David A. Bridwell;George R. Mangun

  • No Sustained Attention Differences in a Longitudinal Randomized Trial Comparing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction versus Active Control

    Donal G. MacCoon;Katherine A. MacLean;Richard J. Davidson;Clifford D. Saron

  • Within and between-person correlates of the temporal dynamics of resting EEG microstates

    Anthony P. Zanesco;Brandon G. King;Alea C. Skwara;Clifford D. Saron

  • Speech and span: Working memory capacity impacts the use of animacy but not of world knowledge during spoken sentence comprehension

    Hiroko Nakano;Clifford Saron;Tamara Y. Swaab

  • Ratings of emotion in faces are influenced by the visual field to which stimuli are presented

    Richard J. Davidson;David Mednick;Edward Moss;Clifford Saron

  • Network analysis for the visualization and analysis of qualitative data

    Jennifer J. Pokorny;Alex Norman;Anthony P. Zanesco;Susan Bauer-Wu

  • Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

    Erika L. Rosenberg;Anthony P. Zanesco;Brandon G. King;Stephen R. Aichele

  • Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat.

    Tonya L. Jacobs;Phillip R. Shaver;Elissa S. Epel;Anthony P. Zanesco

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan M. Rivera
Susan M. Rivera University of California, Davis
Baljinder K. Sahdra
Baljinder K. Sahdra Australian Catholic University
Emilio Ferrer
Emilio Ferrer University of California, Davis
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
John J. Foxe
John J. Foxe University of Rochester
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
George R. Mangun
George R. Mangun University of California, Davis
Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Charles E. Schroeder
Charles E. Schroeder Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

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