Paranormal believers show reduced resting EEG beta band oscillations and inhibitory control than skeptics

Paranormal believers’ thinking is frequently biased by intuitive beliefs. Lack of inhibition of these tempting beliefs is considered a key element in paranormal believers’ thinking. However, the brain activity related to inhibitory control in paranormal believers is poorly understood. We examined EE...

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Autores principales: Narmashiri, Abdolvahed, Hatami, Javad, Khosrowabadi, Reza, Sohrabi, Ahmad
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36828909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30457-7
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description Paranormal believers’ thinking is frequently biased by intuitive beliefs. Lack of inhibition of these tempting beliefs is considered a key element in paranormal believers’ thinking. However, the brain activity related to inhibitory control in paranormal believers is poorly understood. We examined EEG activities at resting state in alpha, beta, and gamma bands with inhibitory control in paranormal believers and skeptics. The present study shows that paranormal belief is related to the reduced power of the alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands, and reduced inhibitory control. This study may contribute to understanding the differences between believers and skeptics in brain activity related to inhibitory control in paranormal believers.
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spelling pubmed-99580092023-02-26 Paranormal believers show reduced resting EEG beta band oscillations and inhibitory control than skeptics Narmashiri, Abdolvahed Hatami, Javad Khosrowabadi, Reza Sohrabi, Ahmad Sci Rep Article Paranormal believers’ thinking is frequently biased by intuitive beliefs. Lack of inhibition of these tempting beliefs is considered a key element in paranormal believers’ thinking. However, the brain activity related to inhibitory control in paranormal believers is poorly understood. We examined EEG activities at resting state in alpha, beta, and gamma bands with inhibitory control in paranormal believers and skeptics. The present study shows that paranormal belief is related to the reduced power of the alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands, and reduced inhibitory control. This study may contribute to understanding the differences between believers and skeptics in brain activity related to inhibitory control in paranormal believers. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9958009/ /pubmed/36828909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30457-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023, corrected publication 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Paranormal believers show reduced resting EEG beta band oscillations and inhibitory control than skeptics
title_full_unstemmed Paranormal believers show reduced resting EEG beta band oscillations and inhibitory control than skeptics
title_short Paranormal believers show reduced resting EEG beta band oscillations and inhibitory control than skeptics
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