Neural correlates of mystical experience
Neuropsychologia November 26, 2015 Irène Cristofori, Joseph Bulbulia, John H. Shaver et al. 104 citations
Mystical experiences, or subjectively believed encounters with a supernatural world, are widely reported across cultures and throughout human history. Previous theories speculate that executive brain functions underpin mystical experiences. To evaluate causal hypotheses, structural studies of brain lesion are required. Previous studies suffer from small samples or do not have valid measures of...
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.11.021 (opens in new tab)
Mysticism
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Executive functions
Lesion
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