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Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 1 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping Copyright 2017 All rights reserved. Copyright of this proceeding belongs to the BICMPL Reprint Permission: No part of this proceeding may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the Editor. Abstracting or indexing of papers in this proceeding is permitted with credit to the source. Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for educational classroom use. For other forms of copying, reprint, or replication permission, write to the BICON at [email protected], c/o R-4, Sector-3, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur-302039, Rajasthan (India) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Copies of this proceeding are available for purchase. Please contact BICON at [email protected], c/o R-4, Sector-3, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur-302039, Rajasthan (India) for ordering information. Published by Biyani Institute of Commerce & Management Pvt. Ltd. Jaipur (India) All papers of the present proceeding were peer reviewed by no less than two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers's recommendation were positive. Editors : • Dr. Manish Biyani • Dr. Priyanka Dadupanthi • Dr. Abhishek Sharma • Dr. Bhoopendra Kumar Verma Reviewers: • Dr. Priyanka Dadupanthi • Dr. Abhishek Sharma • Dr. Sunita Rao • Dr. Bhoopendra Kumar Verma Designed by: Mr. Nilesh Sharma Mr. Vijay Singh Rajawat 2 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping Welcome to BICON-2017 and Pink City Jaipur, India! This year we are celebrating the 12th annual conference event of the India-Japan Bilateral conference series at Biyani Girls College, Jaipur. Since, the first conference in 2006, the conference has continued to grow and has become gold standard annual event in our institutions for encouraging the spirit of research and innovations and strengthen the bilateral academic relationship between India and Japan. Every year, this event receives increasing number of participants from both the countries, India and Japan, and we continue to evolve, adapt and develop new collaborative programs between various institutions in India and Japan. As a results and with our proud, this year Biyani Girls College received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation Award by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan for her contribution to building bilateral relationships between India and Japan. This year event, BICON2017, is specially designed to follow a common theme ‘Work, Stress and Health’ guided by different departments including Commerce & Management and Information Technology (Day-1), Social Science, Education and Law (Day-2) and Science and Nursing (Day-3) based on ‘multidisciplinary-to-interdisciplinary’ approach. This is an initiation to introduce and promote Indian Traditional Education Methodology that integrate ‘Mind, Body and Spirit’ and to guide towards a stress-free environment in our society. BICON2017 is organized in collaboration with partner institutes in Japan, including JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Saitama University, Akita Prefectural University and Kyushu University. BICON-2017 is decided to call for full paper participation with ISBN numbers. The Technical Program Committee is charged with reviewing all abstracts to accommodate the growing number of paper submissions. In a rigorous and time-consuming review process, the committee members worked hard to ensure the continued high quality of accepted papers. In this year's conference program, there are 18 invited talks (5 Japan + 13 India) including 6 keynote talks and 34 invited talks. Total 24 selected oral presentations by young researchers is another features of this event. Conferences such as these can only succeed as a team effort. Planning for this conference has occupied several hundreds of hours over six months by many dedicated people. First, we would like to thank the management of organizing committee who trusted me to organize this conference and who contributed significant funds to support this event. Next, we would like to thank the technical program committee and the reviewers for their excellent work in reviewing the papers as well as their invaluable input and advice.We want to express our sincere thanks to all the dedicated BICON- Team members for their active role and support in all aspects of this conference from collecting abstracts, assisting in coordination, helping to plan the agenda, recruiting sponsors, assisting in organizing the conference, and on and on. We cannot thank them enough for their constant support and dedication so we proud to call them as BICON-Team, one of the brilliant and amazing team. I 3 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping want to thank to all the conveners of each symposia: Dr. B.N. Gaur (Commerce & Management), Er. Vivek Sharma, Dr. Poonam Sharma (Information Technology), Dr. Ekta Pareek (Education), Dr. Devika Agarwal (Social Science), Dr. Priyanka Dadupanthi (Science) and Dr. Satish Gupta (Nursing) and designer Mr. Nilesh Sharma and team for editing the conference proceeding in the last running moments and beautifully designing the brochure and other materials. We also feel proud to receive the endorsement from the Embassy of Japan to call this event as the year of Japan-India Friendly Exchange. Finally, we want to express my sincere thanks to all the invited speakers, offline and online, come from the four corners of India and Japan for kindly arranging their time to participate in this conference. It has been a great pleasure to interact with them and receiving their interest to develop collaboration in the future. It's going to be the best meeting yet. The venue of this conference is located in pink city Jaipur and we have tried to promote a sense of the local culture and North-Indian cuisine to the attendees during this conference. We hope, that this conference is intellectually stimulating, enjoyable, and memorable for all the attendees and professionally satisfying them at the historical, cultural and pink-city Jaipur. With warmest regards, Manish Biyani Neha Pandey Organizing Chair Conference Secretary • Res. Director, Biyani Group of Colleges, India • Registrar, Biyani Group of Colleges, India • Res. Asso. Professor, JAIST, Japan 4 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 5 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 6 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 7 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 8 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 9 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 10 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 11 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 12 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 13 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 14 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 15 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping MESSAGE I am happy to learn that Biyani Group of Colleges and JAIST are jointly orgainising a INDO -JAPAN Bilateral Conference on WORK ,STRESS AND HEALTH and that a memorabilia is being published on this occasion. The theme chosen for the conference is of major interest. The productivity of human beings depends on the Stress levels. Stress in the workplace can affect every aspect of an organisation, from absenteeism rates to interpersonal relationships. It’s vital to recognise the signs of stress as early as possible so that actions can be taken before serious stress- related illness occur. Stress wreaks havoc on emotional equilibrium, as well as on physical health. Effective stress management, on the other hand, helps to break the hold stress has on life, so one can be happier, healthier, and more productive. I am really happy to know that Biyani group of colleges also having collaboration with various institutions of Japan to provide an international exposure to nursing students and staff. I congratulate the Organisers for providing a platform for this interaction through this Conference.I have no doubt that the suggestions made by the speakers to prevent and control stress in community will be well taken and implemented . I wish the Conference a great success Dr Jogendra Sharma Principal GCON ,Jaipur Dean, Faculty of Nursing, RUHS, Jaipur [email protected] 16 12th Biyani International Conference (BICON-17) ISBN: 978-93-83462-94-0 Advances in Scientific Meditation and Stress Coping 17 12th Biyani International
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    www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Parsing the Flanker task to reveal behavioral and oscillatory correlates of unattended confict Received: 21 March 2019 Accepted: 10 September 2019 interference Published: xx xx xxxx Marcella Brunetti1,2, Filippo Zappasodi1,2, Pierpaolo Croce1 & Rosalia Di Matteo1 Stimulus-Response confict is generated by an overlap between stimulus and response dimensions, but the intrinsic nature of this interaction is not yet deeply clarifed. In this study, using a modifed Eriksen fanker task, we have investigated how fankers have to be incongruent to target in order to produce an interference and whether and how this interference interacts with the one produced by Stimulus features overlap. To these aims, an Eriksen-like task employing oriented hands\arrows has been designed to distinguish between two types of Stimulus-Response (S-R) interferences: one derived by a short-term association and one based on automatic processes. Stimulus-Stimulus (S-S) confict has been also included in the same factorial design. Behavioral, Event Related Potential (ERP) and oscillatory activity data have been measured. Results revealed distinct S-S and automatic S-R efects on behavioral performance. ERP and Theta band power modulation results suggested an early frontal S-S confict processing followed by a posterior simultaneous S-S and automatic S-R confict processing. These fndings provide evidence that, in presence of diferent conficts, the sequence of stimulus identifcation and response selection could not move forward in a linear serial direction, but it may involve further efort, mirrored in posterior late components and response time prolongation. In the last three decades, several studies have been conducted into the frame of cognitive control to investigate the dynamic of confict monitoring.
  • Early Modulation of Sensory Distractor Processing Induced by Late Response Conflict

    Early Modulation of Sensory Distractor Processing Induced by Late Response Conflict

    It’s the Other Way Around! Early Modulation of Sensory Distractor Processing Induced by Late Response Conflict Bernhard Pastötter and Christian Frings Abstract ■ Understanding the neural processes that maintain goal- ization effect in (both evoked and induced) theta power (3–6Hz) directed behavior is a major challenge for the study of attentional that was more pronounced in incompatible than compatible control. Although much of the previous work on the issue has trials. The sensory lateralization effect preceded in time a mid- focused on prefrontal brain areas, little is known about the frontal conflict effect that was indexed by an increase of (induced) contribution of sensory brain processes to the regulation of atten- theta power (6–9 Hz) in incompatible compared with compatible tional control. The present EEG study examined brain oscillatory trials. The findings indicate an early modulation of sensory dis- activities invoked in the processing of response conflict in a later- tractor processing induced by response conflict. Theoretical im- alized Eriksen single-flanker task, in which target letters were plications of the findings, in particular with respect to the theory presented at fixation and single distractor letters were presented of event coding and theories relating to stimulus–response bind- either left or right to the targets. Distractors were response ing [Henson, R. N., Eckstein, D., Waszak, F., Frings, C., & Horner, compatible, response incompatible, or neutral in relation to the A. Stimulus-response bindings in priming. Trends in Cognitive responses associated with the targets. The behavioral results Sciences, 18, 376–384, 2014; Hommel, B., Müsseler, J., Aschersleben, showed that responses to targets in incompatible trials were G., & Prinz, W.