Religious Chanting and Self-Related Brain Regions: A Multi-Modal Neuroimaging StudyHin Hung Sik 1, Stavros Skouras 2, Junling Gao 1, Hang Kin Leung 1, Siu Man Ng 3, Kin Cheung Lee 1, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu 1
1Buddhist Practices and Counselling Science Lab, Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, 3Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Here, we present a protocol to investigate the neurophysiological correlates of various meditation forms, including religious chanting. This method uniquely integrates fMRI eigenvector results for region selection in electroencephalogram (EEG) source analysis using k-means clustering. The results provide an in-depth understanding of the neural processes involved in repetitive religious chanting.
