Differences between practitioners of meditation

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In a study examining brain differences between practitioners of meditation and those who never meditated, MRI scans showed that:

A several cortical areas were thicker in the meditators' brains than in the nonmeditators.

B several cortical areas were thinner in the meditators' brains than in the nonmeditators.

C the meditators had less gray matter in regions associated with attention, emotion, and sensory processing.

D meditators and nonmeditators have identical brains.

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