Persinger M A, Makarec K
Department of Psychology, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Brain Cogn. 1992 Nov;20(2):217-26. doi: 10.1016/0278-2626(92)90016-f.
We hypothesized that the feeling of a presence, particularly during periods of profound verbal creativity (reading or writing prose or poetry), is an endemic cognitive phenomenon. Factor analyses of 12 clusters of phenomenological experiences from 348 men and 520 women supported the hypothesis. We conclude that periods of intense meaningfulness (a likely correlate of enhanced burst-firing in the left hippocampal-amygdaloid complex and temporal lobe) allow access to nonverbal representations that are the right hemispheric equivalents of the sense of self; they are perceived as "a presence." The relevance of our results to the theories of Jaynes, Bear, Edelman, and MacLean is discussed.
我们假设，存在感，尤其是在深度言语创造力（阅读或撰写散文或诗歌）期间出现的存在感，是一种普遍存在的认知现象。对348名男性和520名女性的12组现象学体验进行的因素分析支持了这一假设。我们得出结论，强烈意义感的时期（可能与左海马-杏仁核复合体和颞叶增强的爆发式放电相关）允许接触到非言语表征，这些表征是右半球相当于自我感的东西；它们被感知为“一种存在”。我们讨论了我们的结果与杰恩斯、贝尔、埃德尔曼和麦克林理论的相关性。
