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Amishi P. Jha, PhD

Professor of Psychology; Director, Amishi Jha Lab, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Miami; Director and Co-Founder of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative; Presenter of the TED Talk on “How to Tame Your Wandering Mind,” which had more than 5 million views; Author, Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day (2021); Co-Author, “The Frequency of Mind Wandering Increases Over Time During Ongoing Task Performance” (2023, PsyArXiv) and “Does Intensive Mindfulness Training Strengthen Sustained Attention? Examining Individual Differences in Mind Wandering During the Sustained Attention to Response Task” (2022, OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine)

Events

Teaching Engaged Brains

The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom  February 22-24, 2024

Option B: Attention

Peak Mind: Finding Your Focus and Owning Your Attention