Persinger M A, Fisher S D
Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Dec;71(3 Pt 1):817-8. doi: 10.2466/pms.1990.71.3.817.
We tested the hypothesis that a special population of people who maintain exotic beliefs and report frequent subjective psi experiences should display more frequent temporal lobe signs and symptoms. Clusters of items, that reflect various temporal lobe factors for 20 women who were actively (greater than 1 year) involved with a local psychic and spiritual development group, were compared to items for an age-matched reference group (n = 61). T-scores for the reference group did not differ from those of the normal population. Whereas the psychic group did not differ from the reference group on various control and psychiatric measures, mean T-scores on clusters that infer complex partial epileptic signs (specifically a sense of presence, olfactory experiences, and intense meaning) ranged between 65 and 70. Group affiliation explained 22 to 50% of the variance for each of these variables; with discriminant analysis, they correctly classified 95% of both groups of participants.
那些持有奇异信念并频繁报告主观超自然现象体验的特殊人群，应该会表现出更频繁的颞叶体征和症状。我们将反映20名积极参与（超过1年）当地灵媒与精神发展团体的女性各种颞叶因素的项目集群，与年龄匹配的参照组（n = 61）的项目进行了比较。参照组的T分数与正常人群的T分数没有差异。虽然灵媒组在各种对照和精神科测量指标上与参照组没有差异，但推断复杂部分性癫痫体征（特别是存在感、嗅觉体验和强烈意义感）的项目集群的平均T分数在65至70之间。群体归属解释了这些变量中每个变量22%至50%的方差；通过判别分析，它们正确地将两组参与者中的95%进行了分类。
