[Buddha-l] neurophysiology/neuroscience

[S.A. Feite]

On May 25, 2007, at 12:31 AM, jkirk wrote:

> Thanks for all your posts, one of which I didn't understand at all  
> (about gammas etc.) However, I do intend to read this Wallace book.
> Joanna

It was about EEG coherence in Buddhist meditators. There was a recent  
study which was published in a prestigious journal which was highly  
praised as it was really the first study to validate one of the key  
neurological signatures for samadhi: high amplitude gamma wave EEG.

While EEG coherence has been used as a selling point by McMeditation  
marketeers like Transcendental Meditation, this was really  
significant alpha coherence, a very common everyday type of brain  
coherence.

A nice overall review of neuroelectrical and other scientific  
findings on meditation is pending publication in the _Cambridge  
Handbook of Consciousness_ which will likely end up being the first  
real textbook on consciousness research. The section on the  
neurophysiology of meditation is available pre-publication of the  
textbook as _Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness_ (by  
Antoine Lutz, John D. Dunne, Richard J. Davidson).

-Steve
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