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The neurophysiological correlates of religious chanting.
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- The Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Practices: A Systematic Review of Neurotheological Evidence.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Neural Pattern of Chanting-Driven Intuitive Inquiry Meditation in Expert Chan Practitioners.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Effect of short-term chanting on electroencephalographic microstates.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Article
- Long-term practice of intuitive inquiry meditation modulates EEG dynamics during self-schema processing.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Analysis of Meditation vs. Sensory Engaged Brain States Using Shannon Entropy and Pearson's First Skewness Coefficient Extracted from EEG Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Repetitive Religious Chanting Invokes Positive Emotional Schema to Counterbalance Fear: A Multi-Modal Functional and Structural MRI Study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Therapeutic Evaluation of Mind Sound Resonance Technique (A Guided Yogic Meditative Technique) on Human Psychophysiology - A Narrative Review.International journal of yogaArticle
- Immediate Effects of OM Chanting on Heart Rate Variability Measures Compared Between Experienced and Inexperienced Yoga Practitioners.International journal of yogaArticle
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Abstract
Despite extensive research on various types of meditation, research on the neural correlates of religious chanting is in a nascent stage. Using multi-modal electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods, we illustrate that during religious chanting, the posterior cingulate cortex shows the largest decrease in eigenvector centrality, potentially due to regional endogenous generation of delta oscillations. Our data show that these functional effects are not due to peripheral cardiac or respiratory activity, nor due to implicit language processing. Finally, we suggest that the neurophysiological correlates of religious chanting are likely different from those of meditation and prayer, and would possibly induce distinctive psychotherapeutic effects.
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