Electroencephalographic measurement of possession trance in the field

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 435-445

  Oohashi, Tsutomu ^a,b,c   Kawai, Norie ^c,d   Honda, Manabu ^e,f   Nakamura, Satoshi ^e,g   Morimoto, Masako ^h   Nishina, Emi ⁱ   Maekawa, Tadao ^b  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c Foundation for Advancement of International Science   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^h JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Field recording; Portable electroencephalogram recording system; Possession trance; Spectral analysis; Spontaneous electroencephalogram; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MALE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIRITUALITY; TELEMETRY; THETA RHYTHM; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036127935     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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