Data for: Short-term and Long-term Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Falun Gong Qigong on Hemispheric Processing of Attention and Emotion

While neuroscience has described several hemispheric and interhemispheric differences in meditators (e.g., Davidson et al., 2003; Fox et al., 2014; Luders et al., 2012), there has been little recent work investigating how these differences influence behavior from a laterality perspective. In this data, experienced practitioners and novices of the Falun Gong qigong practice (a form of meditation) performed the Emotion Lateralized Attention Network Task (ELANT) (Crump et al., 2013) both before and after a session of the Falun Gong exercises. This version of the LANT incorporated cartoon faces with happy, neutral, or angry emotions as spatial cues. The data also contains resting heart rate variability (HRV) taken both before and after the Falun Gong exercises.

尽管神经科学领域已揭示冥想者存在多种大脑半球内部及半球间的差异（例如Davidson等人，2003；Fox等人，2014；Luders等人，2012），但近年来鲜有研究从偏侧性视角探究此类差异对行为表现的影响。本数据集收录了法轮功气功（一种冥想形式）的资深练习者与新手，在完成一轮法轮功功法练习前后，执行情绪偏侧性注意网络任务（Emotion Lateralized Attention Network Task, ELANT，Crump等人，2013）的相关数据。该版本的情绪偏侧性注意网络任务以带有高兴、中性或愤怒情绪的卡通面孔作为空间提示线索。本数据集同时收录了练习者在功法练习前后的静息态心率变异性（resting heart rate variability, HRV）数据。