• DOI:10.1016/S0925-4927(00)00070-6
Corpus ID: 3098128

Brain electric correlates of strong belief in paranormal phenomena: intracerebral EEG source and regional Omega complexity analyses

@article{Pizzagalli2000BrainEC,
  title={Brain electric correlates of strong belief in paranormal phenomena: intracerebral EEG source and regional Omega complexity analyses},
  author={D. Pizzagalli and D. Lehmann and L. Gianotti and T. Koenig and P. Brugger},
  journal={Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging},
  year={2000},
  volume={100},
  pages={139-154}
}

D. Pizzagalli, D. Lehmann, +2 authors P. Brugger

Published 2000

Psychology, Medicine

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging

The neurocognitive processes underlying the formation and maintenance of paranormal beliefs are important for understanding schizotypal ideation. Behavioral studies indicated that both schizotypal and paranormal ideation are based on an overreliance on the right hemisphere, whose coarse rather than focussed semantic processing may favor the emergence of 'loose' and 'uncommon' associations. To elucidate the electrophysiological basis of these behavioral observations, 35-channel resting EEG was… CONTINUE READING

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