Projects

Overview

Projects Overview

Welcome! The Jha Lab’s research aims to understand: 1) How attention, working memory, and related…

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Mindfulness training research in military cohorts

Over the past 15 years, we have been systematically investigating the utility of mindfulness…

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Mindfulness-based Attention Training

Mindfulness-based Attention Training (MBAT, Jha et al., 2020), is an 8-hour, 4-week mindfulness training course amendable to contextualization…

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Can attention and working memory be strengthened via training?

Attention and working memory are critical for performance success but prone to degradation by several…

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How do attention and working memory exert their influence on the brain’s information processing?

One important line of research in our lab…

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Why do attention and working memory fail us when we need them most?

Attention and working memory are limited in capacity. Factors that hijack attention away from the…

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Characterizing the behavioral consequences and neural correlates of mind wandering

Our minds tend to continuously wander; this can be costly when task-focus is required for…