In a study examining brain differences between practitioners of meditation and those who never meditated, MRI scans showed that:

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The study found that the meditators had more gray matter in regions associated with attention, emotion, and sensory processing. There was no evidence that cortical thickness was negatively correlated with meditation experience, and while several cortical areas were thinner in the meditators' brains, this was not the main finding of the study. Option D is incorrect, as the study clearly found differences between the brains of meditators and nonmeditators.

In a Study Examining Brain Differences Between Practitioners of Meditation