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Culture, Trance, and the Mind‐Brain
Author(s) -
Castillo Richard J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.1995.6.1.17
Subject(s) - trance , psychology , neural correlates of consciousness , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , sociology , cognition , anthropology
Trance phenomena result from the behavior of intense focusing of attention, which is the key psychological mechanism of trance induction. Adaptive responses, including institutionalized forms of trance, are "tuned" into neural networks in the brain and depend to a large extent on the characteristics of culture. Culture‐specific organizations exist in the structure of individual neurons and in the organizational formation of neural networks.