This recent TRENDS article summarises recent neuroscientific research demonstrating how meditation can enhance sustained attention and neural systems involved in monitoring, both functions which are essential for learning and the self-regulation of behaviour.
Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation- TRENDS in Cognitive Science 2008
There's access to an ungated version of that paper/review at the always interesting Mind Hacks blog.
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