Brain activity and the production of written text during mediumistic trance: A controlled EEG study.
PLoS One 2026 Kleber Monteiro Pinto, Thaise G. L. de O. Toutain, Hugo Saba et al.
Mediumistic trance, studied as a cultural phenomenon, is considered an altered state of consciousness with dissociative and non-pathological characteristics. Studies on the effect of this trance state on linguistic performance using electroencephalography (EEG) are still scarce. We investigated the brain electrical activity of mediums using quantitative EEG (qEEG) during writing in waking and...