Neural correlates of religious experience.
The European journal of neuroscience April 1, 2001 N P Azari, J Nickel, G Wunderlich et al.
The commonsense view of religious experience is that it is a preconceptual, immediate affective event. Work in philosophy and psychology, however, suggest that religious experience is an attributional cognitive phenomenon. Here the neural correlates of a religious experience are investigated using functional neuroimaging. During religious recitation, self-identified religious subjects activated...