Amishi Jha
Psychology professor and neuroscientist
Amishi Jha is a psychology professor at the University of Miami who studies attention, working memory and mindfulness.
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American
About Amishi Jha
Jha co-founded the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative in 2010 and serves as its Director of Contemplative Neuroscience. She earned her doctorate at the University of California–Davis and did postdoctoral training at Duke University. Her research has looked at how the brain selects information as relevant and how working memory lets people work with it. She has also studied mindfulness training with soldiers in the US military. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum and presented her research to the Dalai Lama. Her book in our catalog is Peak Mind.