Krisztián Hofstädter listens to music and induces alpha waves – but where are his gamma waves?

Last Updated on November 30, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

gamma waves as discussed here:

How can we become intuitive, how can we induce gamma waves in our brains – through meditation

During a meditation practice strong and long lasting intuitive periods (represented as gamma waves) can occur. Self-exerienced meditators eventually know this phenomenon and can describe it by their own words. Other people seem not to have this experience. David Goleman says in the following video about the brain waves of high-level meditators:

Goleman says about their high gamma wave levels in their brains:

“We actually have no idea what that means experientially. Science never has seen it before…We just don t know but we know it is quiet remarkable”.

Daniel Goleman discusses in the above video the results of the following PNAS paper of Richard Davidsons group from 2004:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

We can see gamma waves in Krisztián Hofstädters EEG setup when he is listening to to music, but are these gamma waves in the left prefrontal cortex induced by listening to music? Gamma waves in the left prefrontal cortex correlate with happiness or well-being. In this example only 2 EEG channels of the cap seem to be connected. How can we see localized gamma waves with this setup?