Talk:Parietal lobe

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I removed this

Dr. Andrew Newberg in his research into brain activity of contemplatives and mystics suggest that the change in activity in this this area for individual in meditative states appears to be correlated to a surrendor of the sense of self or ego into something larger than self or beyond self. [Dr.Newberg's research: http://www.andrewnewberg.com/default.asp]

I checked out the webpage. It seemed rather dubious.

JohnJohn 02:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Hiyah,

He seems to have published quite a lot of articles in academic journals. The articles that focus on religion/spirituality and neruobiology tend to turn up in the journal Zygon which is a peer-reviewed jounal published by Blackwell Publishing. Its editorial board tends to be heavy on academic theologians, but the basic aim of the journal is to open and maintain a dialogue between science and religions. But he has also published in journals such as 'Neurological Sciences' and 'Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine'.

A quick read of some of his articles shows that he is quite rigourous in his approach to examining the neurobiological processes that underlie particular aspects of religious experience.

So, all in all, while his picture may make him look a little shonkey, I don't think that his research itself is dubious.

Ideally the sentence that was excised would be put back in, but have the links replaced with references to the research as published in a peer-reviewed journal. This article from New Scientist, 2001 was where I first read about his research: http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/searchofgod042301.htm

Yvain 12:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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I don't want to start an edit war here. I'm going to go to the literature and find studies that examined the firing of neurons in parietal cortex and will insert what I find and the references into the article. digfarenough (talk) 13:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)