The Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Auditory Thresholds
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This experiment was designed to determine whether Transcendental Meditation has an effect upon the auditory frequency and amplitude discrimination thresholds. These thresholds were measured for each subject, using the ' warble ' technique, before and after twenty minutes meditation, and before and after reading a bookfor twenty minutes (the control). A significantly greater improvement was found in amplitude discrimination (p<.05) and frequency discrimination (p<.OJ) after meditation, than after reading a book.
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