I seriously want to go into religious studies

Dec 28, 2009 14:08

To test his theory, Persinger designed a bizarre-looking cap studded with wire coils. Blindfolded volunteers don the headdress and enter a dark room. Then Persinger turns on the juice. The helmet creates a mild electromagnetic field that penetrates deep inside the wearer's right temporal lobe. This field interferes with the normal electrical ( Read more... )

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fushigi_na_chou December 28 2009, 22:11:50 UTC
Right. And actually, the temporal lobe deals very little in visual perception. Mostly, the occipital lobe is responsible for that, but all the lobes work together to make sense of stimuli, so it's expected that the temporal lobes are working as well when visual stimuli are presented.

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fushigi_na_chou December 28 2009, 22:24:17 UTC
Right. That's the point the study is making.

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