Ability to Gain Control Over One’s Own Brain Activity and its Relation to Spiritual Practice: A Multimodal Imaging Study
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience May 24, 2017 Silvia Erika Kober, Matthias Witte, Manuel Ninaus et al. 54 citations
Spiritual practice, such as prayer or meditation, is associated with focusing attention on internal states and self-awareness processes. As these cognitive control mechanisms presumably are also important for neurofeedback, we investigated whether people who pray frequently (N=20) show a higher ability of self-control over their own brain activity compared to a control group of individuals who...