2026
Interoceptive Mindful Breathing: The ISAAA Model for Attentional–Autonomic Alignment
Sik, H. H., Maharjan, S., & Gao, J.
Mindfulness, Advance online publicationDOI
Publications
The research record.
Peer-reviewed studies from Dr. Junling Gao and colleagues at the Buddhist Practices and Counselling Science Lab at the University of Hong Kong — the EEG, ECG and MRI work that informs how DeepMindex builds candidate features and brain–body models.
- Research group
- Buddhist Practices and Counselling Science Lab, HKU
- Researcher
- Dr. Junling Gao
- Peer-reviewed papers
- 13 listed
Peer-reviewed record
Publications
Newest first. Every entry lists Dr. Gao as an author; DOI links open the publisher record.
2025
Interbrain synchronization in classroom during high-entropy music listening and meditation: a hyperscanning EEG study
Gao, J., Leung, H. K., Lee, K. C., Poon, C. C., Huang, G., Liao, J., Wu, B. W. Y., Thach, T. Q., Ho, R. T. H., & Sik, H. H.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, 1557904DOI2025
Neural Pattern of Chanting-Driven Intuitive Inquiry Meditation in Expert Chan Practitioners
Lee, K. C. G., Sik, H. H., Leung, H. K., Wu, B. W. Y., Sun, R., & Gao, J.
Behavioral Sciences, 15(9), 1213DOI2023
Long-term practice of intuitive inquiry meditation modulates EEG dynamics during self-schema processing
Gao, J., Leung, H. K., Wu, B. W. Y., Hung, J., Chang, C., & Sik, H. H.
Heliyon, 9(9), e20075DOI2023
Increased neurocardiological interplay after mindfulness meditation: a brain oscillation-based approach
Gao, J., Sun, R., Leung, H. K., Roberts, A., Wu, B. W. Y., Tsang, E. W., Tang, A. C. W., & Sik, H. H.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1008490DOI2022
The neurophysiology of the intervention strategies of Awareness Training Program on emotion regulation
Gao, J., Leung, H. K., Fan, J., Wu, B. W. Y., & Sik, H. H.
Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 891656DOI2021
Modulation of the neurophysiological response to fearful and stressful stimuli through repetitive religious chanting
Sik, H. H., Halkias, G. T., Chang, C., Gao, J., Leung, H. K., & Wu, B. W. Y.
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 177, e62960DOI2020
Repetitive religious chanting invokes positive emotional schema to counterbalance fear: a multi-modal functional and structural MRI study
Gao, J., Skouras, S., Leung, H. K., Wu, B. W. Y., Wu, H., Chang, C., & Sik, H. H.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 198DOI2019
The neurophysiological correlates of religious chanting
Gao, J., Leung, H. K., Wu, B. W. Y., Skouras, S., & Sik, H. H.
Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–9DOI2019
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Awareness Training Program (ATP), a Group-Based Mahayana Buddhist Intervention
Wu, B. W. Y., Gao, J., Leung, H. K., & Sik, H. H.
Mindfulness, 10(7), 1280–1293DOI2017
Repetitive Religious Chanting Modulates the Late-Stage Brain Response to Fear- and Stress-Provoking Pictures
Gao, J., Fan, J., Wu, B. W. Y., Halkias, G. T., Chau, M., Fung, P. C., Chang, C., Zhang, Z., Hung, Y. S., & Sik, H. H.
Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2055DOI2017
Using wavelet entropy to demonstrate how mindfulness practice increases coordination between irregular cerebral and cardiac activities
Sik, H. H., Gao, J., Fan, J., Wu, B. W. Y., Leung, H. K., & Hung, Y. S.
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 123, e55455DOI2016
Entrainment of chaotic activities in brain and heart during MBSR mindfulness training
Gao, J., Fan, J., Wu, B. W. Y., Zhang, Z., Chang, C., Hung, Y. S., Fung, P. C. W., & Sik, H. H.
Neuroscience Letters, 616, 218–223DOI
Source note
Titles, author order and journal details follow the lab’s public publication list, checked in October 2026. DOI links resolve to the publisher record. The deep-jhana programme is described separately and is not presented as a published result.