Neuroscience and the ‘Sanskrit Effect’ :
Dr. Hartzell, a Sanskrit devotee and postdoctoral researcher at Spain’s Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language, spent many years studying and translating Sanskrit and became fascinated by its impact on the brain. 1/5
Dr. Hartzell, a Sanskrit devotee and postdoctoral researcher at Spain’s Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language, spent many years studying and translating Sanskrit and became fascinated by its impact on the brain. 1/5
Dr. Hartzell’s research is the first study to examine the brains of Sanskrit scholars.
Using structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at India’s National Brain Research Centre, they scanned the brains of 21 Sanskrit pandits and 21 control subjects.
Using structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at India’s National Brain Research Centre, they scanned the brains of 21 Sanskrit pandits and 21 control subjects.
He reports that the right hippocampus of the scholars, a region that plays a vital role in short and long-term memory, and is specialised for patterns, such as sound, spatial and visual patterns, had more grey matter than the brains of the control subjects.
The right temporal cortex, associated with speech prosody and voice identity, was also substantially thicker.
Regions in the pandits’ brains were dramatically larger than those of controls.
Regions in the pandits’ brains were dramatically larger than those of controls.
The main philosophy is that most mantras were not created but rather found by rishis in meditation, as the utterance of these specific words combined together produces specific rhythms which are good for soul and body.
It affects the inner being of the one chanting.
It affects the inner being of the one chanting.
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