Temporal lobe lability in the highly transliminal mind

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1965-1974

  Thalbourne, Michael A ^a   Crawley, Susan E ^b   Houran, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personal Philosophy Inventory; Temporal lobe lability; Transliminality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242331076     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00044-8     Document Type: Article

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